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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 effice 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,a branch 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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