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and a medical specialist clinic to serve the east of Hong Kong Island. Also under construction were a new divisional police headquarters and police station at Kwai Chung; accommodation for the Police Tactical Unit companies at Aberdeen; the new General Post Office in Central; a new prison and a maximum security training centre at Pik Uk; departmental quarters for the uniformed staff of the Immigration Department; and the new railway terminal building, bus terminus, multi-storey car park for 900 cars, and podium to the indoor stadium, all forming part of the Kowloon-Canton Railway Hung Hom development complex. Several playgrounds, amenity areas, latrines, hawker bazaars and floodlighting schemes were also in hand.
At the end of the year design, working drawings or contract documents were in preparation for about 200 projects, including a new restaurant and kitchen, a new arrivals hall, an extension to the existing office block, new passenger piers and apron docks and new airside waiting accommodation, all of which will form part of the building modification at Hong Kong International Airport. Also included are second- ary technical schools at Oxford Road and Kwai Shing, a technical institute at Cheung Sha Wan, fire stations at Kotewall Road, Chung Hom Kok and San Hui, a multi- storey car park at Yau Ma Tei, the reprovisioning of Green Island Signal Station, a servicing depot for the electrical and mechanical office of the Public Works Depart- ment at Silvermine Bay, Lantau, a second block of government offices in Garden Road, the reprovisioning of the headquarters of the Royal Hong Kong Regiment, and a new judiciary building on Gascoigne Road. Also in the planning or pre- contract stages were a mental hospital at Lai Chi Kok, a pupil nursing auxiliaries training school together with nurses' quarters at Kowloon Hospital, district police headquarters for the Kowloon, New Territories and marine districts, divisional police stations in Central, Cheung Sha Wan and Sha Tin and sub-divisional police stations at Sheung Kwai Chung and Ping Che Road, an international mail centre, a pre-release centre for Prisons' Department, a community centre at Yau Ma Tei and the reprovisioning of Sheung Shui Social Centre, an outdoor stadium at Ho Man Tin ulti- mately intended to accommodate 50,000 spectators, a sports training centre and velo- drome at Causeway Bay, swimming pool complexes at Tai Wan and Hammer Hill Road, an indoor games centre at Morrison Hill, and indoor games halls at Morse Park, Cheung Sha Wan and Boundary Street. Design work was also in hand for the superstructure of the indoor stadium which will form part of the Kowloon-Canton Railway Hung Hom development complex. When completed this stadium will be capable of seating 15,000 spectators. In addition, several recreation grounds, beach buildings, markets and off-street refuse collection centres were also being planned.
Drainage and Anti-pollution Projects
Sewage from buildings is generally conveyed by a separate system of sewers and, in most cases, is discharged into the sea via submarine outfalls after screening to remove offensive solids. A close and constant watch was kept on building develop- ments so that existing sewers were enlarged or duplicated and new sewers were laid in time to meet these increasing needs. Accordingly, new sewers were laid in North Point and Kowloon Tong and were being laid in Aberdeen, Chai Wan, Yau Ma Tei and in Tuen Mun and Sha Tin new towns.