J.P. The commissioning of this large plant, together with a similar installation at Kennedy Town on Hong Kong Island, will reduce the requirement for dumping refuse in sea reclamation areas for which suitable space is now very limited. It is hoped that the third incinerator now being planned will almost eliminate the need for dumping of refuse.
1.14. The continuing programme of Government Resettlement and Low Cost Housing produced accommodation for 146,000 people while buildings to house another 286,000 were under construction. There was a slight slowing down in the programme because of the difficulties of finding suitable sites for new estates in or near the urban areas.
1.15. The foundations for a new technical institute at Morrison Hill were completed and the construction of the superstructure started. The building will provide trade training facilities for 900 full-time students and about 500 evening students. A new building for Radio Hong Kong was completed in Kowloon. The new building houses the Headquarters offices in addition to the radio studios.
1.16. Multi-storey car parks were under construction near Rumsey Street on the Central Reclamation, Hong Kong Island and in Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon. Each building will provide 8 floors of car parking; in addition, office accommodation for Government departments is included on the ground and mezzanine floors.
ORGANIZATION
1.17. The problems associated with nearly four million people living within a small area of land, much of which is in the process of redevelopment to a very high density, coupled with the need to open up and service new land for immediate and future development, make it necessary for the Department to combine many functions which in other territories would be undertaken by a number of agencies. The main spheres of departmental responsibility are:
Building
Engineering
The design and construction of Government buildings and the control of private development;
Port Works, Roads, Drainage, Sewage Disposal, Land Development, Traffic Engineering and Electrical/Mechanical Engineering;
Page 14
Page 14