Post_Office_1966-1967 — Page 14

25.6.66 temporary postal services were provided at the Peak School. Both posting and delivery services were given.

71. Neither the dock strike in England nor the Q.E.A. strike had any noticeable effect on the transmission of mail.

ACCOMMODATION

72. The total number of Post Offices in operation on the 1st April, 1966 was 47, including two mobile offices. During the year, five new Post Offices were opened as follows:

Morrison Hill Road

26.9.66

on

13. 4.66

Cheung Sha Wan

on

18. 4.66

Repulse Bay

on

Tsz Wan Shan

on

Yau Yat Tsuen

on

3.10.66 (in temporary accommodation) 1.2.67

bringing the total to 52 Post Offices in operation on 31st March, 1967.

73. The development programme provides for the opening of a further five new Post Offices in the next financial year, and the provi- sion of new premises to replace the temporary Sai Ying Pun Post Office.

74. Of the larger development projects, the following information is reported:

(a) New General Post Office

A revised schedule of accommodation has been submitted and preliminary planning is continuing, but there is little progress to report.

(b) Kowloon Central Post Office

Good progress has been made and it is expected that the Post Office will be ready for occupation in August 1967.

(c) Colony Transit Mail Office and Sorting Office, Hung Hom

This project is in abeyance pending decision on the resiting of the Kowloon Central Railway Terminal.

(d) Overseas Mail Centre, Kowloon

Substantial areas of accommodation were allotted to the Post Office during the year in the ground and upper floors of the former Sea Terminal at Navy Street, and detailed planning is in hand for the conversion of this accommodation into a mail centre for the handling of overseas mails.

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