2.20. Working drawings were progressing for a comprehensive scheme at Sek Kong in the New Territories to provide a Training School together with a fire and ambulance station and offices for a District Fire Services Headquarters. This is to include training facilities for 160 recruits with classrooms, garages for 10 training vehicles, 6 drill towers and barrack accommodation for the trainees as well as married quarters for officers and other ranks.
2.21. Sketch plans were in hand for Canton Road Fire Station which, in addition to serving as the Fire Services Kowloon Command Headquarters and Principal Fire Station with accommodation for 10 fire appliances, will provide an officers' mess to serve the whole of the Fire Services Department. Facilities for specialized physical training for all members of the service, workshops and stores to serve all mainland establishments and departmental quarters will also be provided.
## GENERAL GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS
### Offices and Workshops
2.22. Construction was completed during the year on an additional floor to the West Wing of the Central Government Offices and of the Western District Magistracy which also provides accommodation for district courts and various departments. The Shau Kei Wan Marine Office and quarters, extensions to the Farm Road Government Offices and alterations to the Government Printing Workshop and to the Kwun Tong District Branch Office were also finished. Conversion works on further parts of the old Wellington Barracks for the Fire and Ambulance Services were similarly completed.
2.23. By the end of the year building was in progress on the offices and workshops of the P.W.D. Depot and Civil Aid Services Headquarters at Caroline Hill; on temporary office accommodation for Cable & Wireless in the new Rodney Block and on alterations to the Supreme Court Library.
2.24. Working drawings and contract documents were in course of preparation for a new Government office building of 27 storeys on a portion of the former Murray Barracks site. This is the tallest building so far designed for the Hong Kong Government and will provide about 228,000 square feet of office space. Contract documents were also in preparation.
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of such huts is to enable the Fire Services Department to spot and deal quickly with minor local incidents and hillside fires.
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2.20. Working drawings were progressing for a comprehensive scheme at Sek Kong in the New Territories to provide a Training School together with a fire and ambulance station and offices for a District Fire Services Headquarters. This is to include training facilities for 160 recruits with classrooms, garages for 10 training vehicles, 6 drill towers and barrack accommodation for the trainees as well as married quarters for officers and other ranks.
2.21. Sketch plans were in hand for Canton Road Fire Station which, in addition to serving as the Fire Services Kowloon Command Headquarters and Principal Fire Station with accommodation for 10 fire appliances, will provide an officers' mess to serve the whole of the Fire Services Department. Facilities for specialized physical training for all members of the service, workshops and stores to serve all mainland establishments and departmental quarters will also be provided.
## GENERAL GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS
### Offices and Workshops
2.22. Construction was completed during the year on an additional floor to the West Wing of the Central Government Offices and of the Western District Magistracy which also provides accommodation for district courts and various departments. The Shau Kei Wan Marine Office and quarters, extensions to the Farm Road Government Offices and alterations to the Government Printing Workshop and to the Kwun Tong District Branch Office were also finished. Conversion works on further parts of the old Wellington Barracks for the Fire and Ambulance Services were similarly completed.
2.23. By the end of the year building was in progress on the offices and workshops of the P.W.D. Depot and Civil Aid Services Headquarters at Caroline Hill; on temporary office accommodation for Cable & Wireless in the new Rodney Block and on alterations to the Supreme Court Library.
2.24. Working drawings and contract documents were in course of preparation for a new Government office building of 27 storeys on a portion of the former Murray Barracks site. This is the tallest building so far designed for the Hong Kong Government and will provide about 228,000 square feet of office space. Contract documents were also in preparation.
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