building into a multi-purpose studio. The former of these buildings houses the Government Educational Television Unit whose service to schools was inaugurated during the year, whilst the latter conversion will enable the original main sound studio to be used for the production of films by the Television Unit of Radio Hong Kong.
4.42 Four projects comprising a total of 60 Type I and II non-departmental quarters were completed at Chung Hom Kok, Pok Fu Lam, the Peak and Mansfield Road, and a further 25 Type II non-departmental quarters at Mansfield Road were in an advanced stage of construction. Also under construction were 229 quarters at Hung Hom for married staff of the Preventive Service and 39 quarters at Victoria Barracks for married soldiers. Piling work for housing which, when completed, will accommodate villagers who must be moved as a result of the construction of the High Island Water Scheme, was begun just prior to the end of the year.
4.43 Construction of the substructure of a Multi-storey Car Park at Murray Road was well advanced. This building, when completed, will provide about 61,000 square feet of office accommodation in addition to eight floors of car parking.
4.44 The construction of Interpreter Booths in both the Legislative Council and Urban Council Chambers, necessary to allow of the introduction of simultaneous oral translation in these Chambers, was well in hand.
4.45 Other projects under construction at the end of the year included two motor vehicle service stations, one at Kennedy Town and the other at Lai Chi Kok, which, when completed, will provide additional servicing facilities for the large fleet of Government vehicles, an extension to the Revenue Station at Fanling, and the reprovisioning of property at Kai Tak for H.B.M. Department of the Environment.
Medical Buildings
4.46 The Hospital for the Mentally Sub-normal at Siu Lam was completed. Funds for this project were provided by the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club. This hospital, together with the Mental Hospital being built on an adjoining site for Prisons Department and which was in an advanced stage of construction as the year under review ended, were both designed by private architects engaged by the Department.
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