202. The installation of air conditioning plants in the New Police Headquarters (350 tons), Film Censor's Theatre (3 tons), Operating Theatre Kowloon Hospital (3 tons), Operating Theatre Laichikok Hospital (3 tons), Dental Clinic Kennedy Road (7 tons), Police Communication Centre Kowloon (3 tons), was satisfactorily completed. The total capacity of the various air conditioning plants in Government use at the end of the year was 915 tons.
203. Lift installations completed under contract were 3 at the New Police Headquarters, 1 at H.K.R.N.V.R. Building and 1 at Queen Mary Hospital. These five new lifts bring the total of the lifts in operation in the various Government Buildings to 43, of which 20 are directly maintained and serviced by this Section.
204. A total of 80 new wiring installations was carried out during the year. These included perimeter lights and an alarm system at New Police Headquarters, lighting at New Queen's Pier, extension of the main switchboard and connexion of the new secondary crusher at Hok Un Quarry, emergency lighting for Operating Theatres at Queen Mary and Kowloon Hospitals, power and lighting at G.P.O. Pier, Connaught Road Central, rewiring the power and lighting circuits at Waglan Island Lighthouse, power and lighting circuits at Kennedy Town Abattoir, rewiring of Water Works' Quarters at 5B Garden Road and at Elliot Filters, in addition to many other miscellaneous items such as traffic lights, air raid sirens, market stalls etc.
205. The electrical workshop was fully employed during the year.
In addition to the repairing and overhauling of electrical plant and appliances, totalling 2,074 in number, the following items were fabricated and installed:—58 traffic island bollards, 13 traffic point duty stands, and the main switchboard in the Sea Water Pumping House on the Central Reclamation. In addition two switchboards for the New Tsan Yuk Hospital were fabricated and the main switchboard for the New Police H.Q. was installed and connected.
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