automatic mains failure starting and indication systems at Government House. At Yau Ma Tei Government Dockyard twelve cast iron rollers for slipway cradle wireropes, eight electric hoists, two 8,000 gallon vertical oil tanks and one 5,000 gallon underground oil tank, together with ancillary equipment, were installed. Air conditioning work was carried out in various Army Camps in Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories, additional pumping plant installed at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, and sewage plant equipment installed at Pak Kok Tsui sewage pumping station. Underground waste oil tanks and vehicle servicing equipment were installed at Kennedy Town and Lai Chi Kok vehicle servicing stations together with underground fuel oil tanks and dispensing pumps at King's Park Ambulance Depot and Fanling Fire Station. Carcase droppers and dressing hoists were installed at Kennedy Town and Cheung Sha Wan Abattoirs and an electrically operated sliding partition in the New Clinical Block at Queen Mary Hospital, together with domestic hot water heating calorifiers and pipework. A mail bag conveyor system and bridge structure was completed at Connaught Road G.P.O. and two 12,000 gallon fuel storage tanks and associated equipment installed on Waglan Island. Improvement of the Baggage Distribution loop was carried out at Hong Kong International Airport, together with the installation of passenger aerobridges and the re-routing of the cables to enable piling work to be carried out for the extension of the Terminal Building. Steam, compressed air and water services were installed at Shau Kei Wan Medical Department Laundry. At Mong Kok Ferry Pier lifts and ramps were removed to enable reclamation work to be undertaken.
Design
8.08 The preliminary investigation, design work, preparation of specifications and detail drawings were in various stages on some fifty projects at the end of the year.
Projects under Construction
8.09 At the end of the year work under contract and by direct labour, valued at $17.75 million, was in progress on a number of projects, including the installation of steam and compressed air services, fuel oil storage and incinerators at the new Lai Chi Kok Hospital, Queen Mary Hospital and the new Vaccine Institute at Pok Fu Lam, subway lighting and sump pumps in three pedestrian subways, emergency generators and power supplies on Stonecutter's Island and
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