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Tai Lam Addiction Treatment Centre; a new cell block at Sha Tsui Detention Centre; community halls at Kwai Fong and Shek Yam Housing Estates; a swimming pool at the Sai Kung Outdoor Recreation Centre; the first stage of the Cheung Chau Recrea- tion Ground; playgrounds at Kwai Chung and Tsuen Wan; local open spaces at Kwai Chung and Tuen Mun; a beach building at Cafeteria Beach; a temporary market at Tsuen Wan; village houses at Wo Yi Hop Road as part of the Tsuen Wan-Kwai Chung clearances; Sham Tseng Village rehousing as part of the first stage of Tuen Mun Road; junior staff quarters at Kwai Chung for the staff of the desalting plant at Lok On Pai; 64 married soldiers' quarters and Gurkha sergeants' messes at Sek Kong and Borneo Lines; a high school for Gurkha children at Sek Kong; and additional kennels, pharmacy and surgery facilities for the Hong Kong Dog Company of the Royal Military Police at Borneo Lines.
Projects under construction at the end of the year included: the extension of the office block over the Hong Kong International Airport terminal building and the access flyover from Prince Edward Road to the terminal building, both as part of the terminal building modifications; site formation work for the reprovisioning of Victoria Technical School; piling work for a fire station at San Hui, for a divisional fire station and New Territories fire command headquarters, and for an ambulance depot at Sha Tin; fire services rank and file quarters at Tsuen Wan and Sha Tin; police rank and file quarters at Ho Man Tin, Kwai Chung and Sha Tin; secondary schools at Kwai Chung, Sha Tin and Tuen Mun; a judiciary building at Gascoigne Road; the first phase of the second mental hospital at Lai Chi Kok; a dental nurses' training school; staff quarters at Queen Mary Hospital; government office buildings at Tai Po and Tuen Mun; a divisional headquarters and police station at Fanling; divisional police stations at Ho Man Tin, Cheung Sha Wan, Sha Tin and Tuen Mun; and a sub- divisional police station at Sheung Kwai Chung. Also under construction were: the reprovisioning of Stanley Training Centre; improvements to Hei Ling Chau Drug Addiction Treatment Centre and Ma Po Ping Prison; non-departmental quarters at Borrett Road and Mount Butler, Hong Kong, and Broadcast Drive, Kowloon; the reprovisioning of Ma Tau Wai Girls' Home; an indoor games centre at Morrison Hill; the superstructure of the indoor stadium at Hung Hom; site formation work for a swimming pool complex and park at Chai Wan; a public garden on the site of the former Hong Kong Cricket Club ground in Central district; the first stage of a recreation centre on the Wan Chai reclamation; a planetarium in Tsim Sha Tsui; a swimming pool complex at Fanling; a sports ground at Kwai Chung; married soldiers' quarters at Sek Kong; married officers' quarters at Victoria Barracks and Sek Kong; new headquarters for the British Forces in Hong Kong at HMS Tamar together with a number of other projects associated with the transfer of military facilities from Victoria Barracks to HMS Tamar and the Royal Air Force facilities from Kai Tak to Sek Kong. Several playgrounds, amenity areas, latrines, hawker bazaars and flood- lighting schemes also were in hand.
At the end of the year, design, working drawings or contract documents were being prepared for more than 200 projects. They included a new restaurant and kitchen block, a new arrivals hall, the western half of the vehicular deck and passenger piers, apron decks and air bridges for Stands I and II – all as part of the airport terminal building modifications; the first stage of a technical institute at Kowloon Tong;