classrooms and 11 specialist rooms for science and technical subjects, general purpose room, assembly hall, library and offices.
3.34. Two additional classrooms were constructed as an extension to Aberdeen Primary School.
Fire Services Buildings
3.35. A standard eleven-storey fire station was completed at Hung Hom in Kowloon.
3.36. A total of four additional quarters for duty officers on the stations were provided at Kwun Tong and Yuen Long Fire Stations.
3.37. Piling work was completed and construction was well advanced on the new Canton Road Fire Station complex. 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
3.38. On 7th February, 1969, the Director of Public Works unveiled a marble commemorative plaque within the new Government office building of 27 storeys (including basements) which will house most of the Public Works Department. This building, to be known as Murray Building, is under construction on the site of the former Murray Barracks in Garden Road, Hong Kong. During the year the reinforced concrete structure progressed at the rate of two floors a month and other works were well advanced.
3.39. Piling work was completed and construction was in hand on the new Yau Ma Tei Government Slipway buildings. This project will provide workshops and marine stores, a small post office and also some 130,000 square feet of offices for various Government departments in a 15-storey building together with a six-storey block containing workshops, offices, canteen and quarters for the Marine Department, a single-storey workshop block and a buoyage yard.
3.40. Work was in hand on the construction of Government Quarters at Junction Road, Kowloon and at Pipers Hill whilst site formation work was completed for a block of 105 new Government Service Flats in Kowloon.
classrooms and 11 specialist rooms for science and technical subjects, general purpose room, assembly hall, library and offices.
3.34. Two additional classrooms were constructed as an extension to Aberdeen Primary School.
Fire Services Buildings
3.35. A standard eleven-storey fire station was completed at Hung Hom in Kowloon.
3.36. A total of four additional quarters for duty officers on the stations were provided at Kwun Tong and Yuen Long Fire Stations.
3.37. Piling work was completed and construction was well advanced on the new Canton Road Fire Station complex. 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
3.38. On 7th February, 1969, the Director of Public Works unveiled a marble commemorative plaque within the new Government office building of 27 storeys (including basements) which will house most of the Public Works Department. This building, to be known as Murray Building, is under construction on the site of the former Murray Barracks in Garden Road, Hong Kong. During the year the reinforced concrete structure progressed at the rate of two floors a month and other works were well advanced.
3.39. Piling work was completed and construction was in hand on the new Yau Ma Tei Government Slipway buildings. This project will provide workshops and marine stores, a small post office and also some 130,000 square feet of offices for various Government departments in a 15-storey building together with a six-storey block containing work- shops, offices, canteen and quarters for the Marine Department, a single-storey workshop block and a buoyage yard.
3.40. Work was in hand on the construction of Government Quarters at Junction Road, Kowloon and at Pipers Hill whilst site formation work was completed for a block of 105 new Government Service Flats in Kowloon.
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