provide primary school facilities. This accommodation is considered more satisfactory than that formerly provided by modifications to ground floor and top floor domestic accommodation. Each estate school consists of 24 standard classrooms, two larger rooms for special classes, together with administration accommodation and a covered ground floor physical-training and recreation area. By the end of the year 16 such schools were under construction.
Urban Services Buildings and Recreations Areas
2.51. A playground at Chai Wan Resettlement Estate was completed and six playgrounds at various localities in the New Territories were either finished or in course of formation. In addition to these playgrounds, a large programme of urban amenities was carried out in the form of works for the provision of, or improvements to, smaller playgrounds, rest gardens and sitting-out areas.
2.52. Six latrines and bath-houses were completed in various localities and four more were in course of construction.
2.53. A beach building was constructed at Silverstrand in the New Territories and three more were being built at Big Wave Bay, Shek O and St. Stephen's beaches on Hong Kong Island. These buildings provide a refreshment kiosk, changing and toilet facilities for members of the public, a beach-guard office, first-aid post and catamaran store.
2.54. A market at Sham Tseng, in the New Territories, was finished and provides stalls for fish, meat, poultry and vegetables, together with some cooked-food stalls, an office, public latrine, refuse disposal bay and bicycle store.
2.55. Progress was maintained on two large abattoir projects, the designs for which were prepared by private architects and engineers in Britain. The Kennedy Town Abattoir will provide lairage in a five-storey building for 1,000 head of cattle, 9,500 pigs and 400 sheep and goats and the five-storey slaughterhouse will contain slaughter halls for processing 210 cattle, 3,200 pigs and 50 sheep and goats in an 8-hour day. Sufficient refrigerated storage will be provided to accommodate 150 beef, 1,200 pork and 60 mutton and goat carcasses. Similar but slightly reduced provision will be made in the Cheung Sha Wan Abattoir. Because of the concentration of loads, steel framed construction has been adopted for the slaughterhouses, while the remainder of the buildings will be of reinforced concrete construction.
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