Butler Quarry Staff Quarters. The first stage of the wiring installation on the Kowloon West arm of the New Star Ferry Piers was completed.
Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Section
188. Plant and equipment in Government use continued to increase involving an addition of 16% over the previous year. The annual maintenance programme for servicing and keeping in good running order the 47 air conditioning plants totalling 922 tons of refrigeration, 136 room air coolers, 1,358 domestic type refrigerators, 9 mortuaries and cold stores, 9 film processing units, 26 dehumidifiers, 43 ventilating and extraction plants and other miscellaneous items, including a blood plasma manufacturing unit and 2 deep freeze cabinets for vaccines, was carried out satisfactorily.
189. Installations carried out under contract were: new air conditioning plants in the Government House study and coding office (19 H.P.), Physiotherapy Clinic in Kowloon Hospital (9 H.P.), Physiotherapy Clinic in Wanchai Polyclinic (32 H.P.), Inland Revenue Department (75 H.P.), No. 1 Court in Supreme Court Building (15 H.P.), Arms and Ammunitions Stores and Radio Control Room in Police H.Q. (27 H.P.), Council Chamber in Central Government Offices (60 H.P.), and Blackhead Signal Station (9 H.P.); room air coolers for the following Departments - Police (12), Registrar General (1), Education (6), Marine (5), Government Printer (5), Public Works (2), Registrar of Trade Unions (2), Treasury (2), Fire Brigade (1), Civil Aviation (Kai Tak Airport) (2), Secretariat (Telephone Exchange) (3) and Medical (3); ventilating and extraction plants in the Treasury Revenue Branch; dehumidifiers in Government Offices (1), Library, Education Department (1), Telephone Exchange, Central Government Offices (3), Agricultural Station, Sheung Shui (1); and cold store at the By Products Pilot Plant in the Smithfield Abattoir (1,600 cubic feet). The transfer of an existing air-conditioning plant from No. 1 Court to the Marriage Registry, Supreme Court, was completed. The installation of a cold store (120 cubic feet) in Lai Chi Kok Hospital and film processing unit in Kowloon Hospital was carried out by direct labour.
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