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Pust Office.

The postal facilities available in New Kowloon and

other parts of the New Territory are behind the times and

to remedy this provision has been made for five more postal clerks and eleven more postmen.

For the same reason a further vote for new pillar and letterboxes appears under "Special Expenditure". In addition funds are provided under

Public Works Extraordinary, New Kowloon, for two new Postal Kiosks to be erected at Sham Shui Po and Kowloon T'ong res- pectively. The Post Office also claims another important item under Public Works Extraordinary Kowloon, namely a new

Post Office at Kowloon Point, I need hardly remind the Council that complaints from the public of the inadequacy of the present Kowloon Post Office have not been few. At the same time complaints from various Government Departments that their office accommodation is quite inadequate for their expanded and expanding activities have been equally insistent. Government therefore proposes as soon as funds will permit to erect probably on the lot of Crown Land of which the present Kowloon Post Office occupies one corner a block of office buildings seven or eight stories high which will hold not only an enlarged Post Office and Fire Station but a sub- treasury,abranch of the Medical Department and several other sub-departments. As this scheme could not be started with- out first removing the present Post Office and the need for a larger Post Office is pressing it is proposed next year to erect on the corner site lying between the Children's Playground and Nathan Road a temporary Post Office building

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