59. In the newer blocks, in which the supporting walls are at twenty feet intervals, it is possible to have bays of double the normal size, thus providing school classrooms of about 20 by 25 feet. At the end of the year there were 10 schools in operation on the ground floor of such blocks. These schools are operated by voluntary agencies as co-educational vernacular primary schools under the Education Depart- ment's Subsidy Code.
60. Ground floor rooms are used by casework centres, clinics, and a great variety of other welfare purposes, including a family planning clinic, six milk distribution centres, two children's libraries, a Loan and Savings Association and clubs, nurseries, vocational training centres and noodle factories.
61. Crown Land in the vicinity of the resettlement estates is also reserved for schools and welfare projects. There is a large Government polyclinic at Shek Kip Mei. Government schools are situated in or near most existing estates and are planned for all future ones. A notable contribution to community development and welfare during the year was the four-storey Community Centre built at Wong Tai Sin at a cost of $1,150,000 and donated by the United States Government. It is planned to built similar community centres near all the larger estates in the future.
62. Large recreation spaces are provided within the boundaries of each estate, similar in design to playgrounds and recreation spaces in other parts of the urban areas. They include small fenced playgrounds for young children, enclosed areas with lawns and benches for the more elderly, volley ball and basketball courts and miniature football ground.
CHAPTER VII
RESETTLEMENT FACTORIES
63. Most squatter areas in the Colony include a number of work- shops and small factories. Some of these workshops can be resettled in the ground floor rooms of resettlement estates, but others are unsuit- able for this type of accommodation because they use power-driven machinery or other processes likely to disturb the residents in the block. It is to provide for these concerns that resettlement factories have been built.
64. The appearance of these factory buildings is similar to a domestic 'H' block, but there are important structural differences. The
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