Urban Services Projects
4.82
A memorial park was completed in March 1976 at the site of the 1972 Sau Mau Ping landslide.
4.83 By the end of the year piling work was in hand for a new funeral depot at Hung Hom and work had begun to permit the accommodating of an additional cremator at Cape Collinson Crematorium.
4.84
As the year ended local open spaces were also under construction at Kwai Chung and Tuen Mun.
Services Projects
4.85
At the beginning of the year there were fourteen projects under construction, seven of which were of major proportions. The construction of accommodation for an Army Education Centre at Sek Kong was completed, was Phase I of the additional accommodation at Gun Club Hill Barracks, while Phase II of this same additional accommodation at Gun Club Hill Barracks was started.
4.86
During the year, two blocks of army quarters within the confines of the British Military Hospital at King's Park were completed, providing domestic accommodation for 49 married officers, while fire-precaution improvement work for the hospital and some of the existing married quarters was put in hand.
4.87
Plans of a prototype design of a high school for Gurkha children were approved and working drawings were at an advanced stage. Projects under construction include 64 married soldiers' quarters at Sek Kong Village, a community centre at Stanley Fort and an ammunition storehouse at Cassino Camp.
4.88
In addition to all of the above, as the year ended, as part of the new Defence Costs (Works) Agreement, the reprovisioning work to allow the relinquishment of Victoria Barracks and R.A.F. Kai Tak was begun. This included some demolition at H.M.S. Tamar to make way for a new Headquarters, British Forces, complex and demolition and site formation at Sek Kong in preparation for new R.A.F. accommodation.
Projects Built for Other P.W.D. Offices
4.89
The new terminal building, multi-storey car park and railway staff quarters, all parts of the Kowloon-Canton Railway Hung Hom development, were completed during the year. Her Majesty the Queen unveiled a plaque commemorating her visit to Hong Kong at the main entrance to the terminal building.
4.90
Also completed during the year for other P.W.D. Offices were a dog inoculation centre at Tai Kok Tsui, a bus crew canteen and regulator's office at Tsuen Wan, a police post and explosives depot at Tai Po Road and housing at Sai Kung for villagers displaced by the High Island Water Scheme.
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