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3.38. Demolitions were carried out and piling was completed in preparation for the construction of a new fire station in Canton Road, Kowloon. This project will also include Fire Headquarters for Kowloon and the New Territories, main workshops for the maintenance of fire appliances, stores, accommodation for fire boats' crews, barrack accommodation and married quarters.
General Government Buildings
3.39. In Garden Road, Hong Kong, the substructure was completed and the superstructure commenced for a new 27-storey Government Office building including basements, on the site of the former Murray Barracks. This building to be known as Murray Building will eventually house the majority of the Public Works Department.
3.40. More Government Offices were completed on the upper deck level of the two Government piers at Victoria Central reclamation area and work was in hand on the construction of Government quarters at Junction Road, Kowloon and at Piper's Hill.
3.41. Work was completed on the resiting of Radio Hong Kong's medium wave transmitters, which were removed from Hung Hom to a site on Smuggler's Ridge, between Kowloon and Sha Tin in the New Territories, where a transmitter building, staff quarters and a 300-ft. high aerial mast have been erected.
3.42. On the occasion of the Silver Jubilee Exhibition of the Chinese Manufacturers Association, a Government pavilion was erected on the exhibition site at Hung Hom. The pavilion comprised several linked halls of polyhedron design, surrounding a garden area, each hall being used for the display of models and exhibits depicting the services rendered to the public by government departments. The whole pavilion was constructed within 30 days.
Medical Buildings
3.43. At Queen Mary Hospital a new building was completed to provide professorial suites, with teaching and research facilities in Midwifery, Gynaecology, Orthopaedics, Medicine, Paediatrics, Surgery and Radiotherapy. The first stage of alterations to the original hospital building to provide additional beds was also completed and work continued on the remaining stages.
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3.38. Demolitions were carried out and piling was completed in preparation for the construction of a new fire station in Canton Road, Kowloon. This project will also include Fire Headquarters for Kowloon and the New Territories, main workshops for the maintenance of fire appliances, stores, accommodation for fire boats' crews, barrack accom- modation and married quarters.
General Government Buildings
3.39. In Garden Road, Hong Kong, the substructure was completed and the superstructure commenced for a new 27-storey Government Office building including basements, on the site of the former Murray Barracks. This building to be known as Murray Building will eventually house the majority of the Public Works Department.
3.40. More Government Offices were completed on the upper deck level of the two Government piers at Victoria Central reclamation area and work was in hand on the construction of Government quarters at Junction Road, Kowloon and at Piper's Hill.
3.41. Work was completed on the resiting of Radio Hong Kong's medium wave transmitters, which were removed from Hung Hom to a site on Smuggler's Ridge, between Kowloon and Sha Tin in the New Territories, where a transmitter building, staff quarters and a 300-ft. high aerial mast have been erected.
3.42. On the occasion of the Silver Jubilee Exhibition of the Chinese Manufacturers Association, a Government pavilion was erected on the exhibition site at Hung Hom. The pavilion comprised several linked halls of polyhedron design, surrounding a garden area, each hall being used for the display of models and exhibits depicting the services rendered to the public by government departments. The whole pavilion was constructed within 30 days.
Medical Buildings
3.43. At Queen Mary Hospital a new building was completed to provide professorial suites, with teaching and research facilities in Mid- wifery, Gynaecology, Orthopaedics, Medicine, Paediatrics, Surgery and Radiotherapy. The first stage of alterations to the original hospital building to provide additional beds was also completed and work con- tinued on the remaining stages.
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