3.67. Two 2-storey restaurants and one kindergarten were in course of construction at Sau Mau Ping and two blocks of staff quarters were nearing completion at the end of the year at Tsz Wan Shan and Kwun Tong.
3.68. A programme designed to provide individual water supplies for tenants in the older Mark III and Mark IV blocks was put in hand at several estates and work was completed at Tin Wan and Yau Tong Bay. A programme for the rewiring of the Mark I and Mark II blocks was also put in hand.
3.69. In the Government Low Cost Housing programme, nine blocks containing 3,300 individual units of 35 square feet were completed and a further 47 blocks containing a total of 18,700 individual units were under construction. These buildings range between 7 and 20 storeys in height.
3.70. Six estate schools containing a total of 144 primary classrooms were completed and work was in hand on a further eighteen 24-classroom schools.
3.71. Site formation work was completed or was in hand on three sites which are to provide 64,000 individual units of future accommodation.
Social Welfare Buildings
3.72. The Approved School for Boys was completed at Kau Wah Keng in the New Territories. This school will accommodate up to 140 boys at any one time and comprises an administration block, dormitory block and a separate quarters block grouped around a miniature football pitch and basketball court.
3.73. A Combined Training Centre for Mentally Defective Children and Adults, combined with a hostel for adults, was also completed at Kwun Tong. The four-storey building comprises a trade training centre with five workshops and five classrooms, together with five dormitories, dining/recreation room, play room, administrative offices and staff quarters.
3.74. Piling work was completed and construction commenced at the end of the year on the new Town Hall at Yuen Long, which will contain a hall with stage and dressing rooms, kitchen, lending and reference library, study rooms, day nursery, roof-top playground and space for activities of local organizations, youth and adult groups and vocational training. Funds have been provided from the Lotteries Fund.
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3.67. Two 2-storey restaurants and one kindergarten were in course of construction at Sau Mau Ping and two blocks of staff quarters were nearing completion at the end of the year at Tsz Wan Shan and Kwun Tong.
3.68. A programme designed to provide individual water supplies. for tenants in the older Mark III and Mark IV blocks was put in hand at several estates and work was completed at Tin Wan and Yau Tong Bay. A programme for the rewiring of the Mark I and Mark II blocks was also put in hand.
3.69. In the Government Low Cost Housing programme, nine blocks containing 33,000 individual units of 35 square feet were completed and a further 47 blocks containing a total of 187,000 individual units were under construction. These buildings range between 7 and 20 storeys in height.
3.70. Six estate schools containing a total of 144 primary classrooms were completed and work was in hand on a further eighteen 24-class- room schools.
3.71. Site formation work was completed or was in hand on three sites which are to provide 64,000 individual units of future accommo- dation.
Social Welfare Buildings
3.72. The Approved School for Boys was completed at Kau Wah Keng in the New Territories. This school will accommodate up to 140 boys at any one time and comprises an administration block, dormitory block and a separate quarters block grouped around a miniature foot- ball pitch and basketball court.
3.73. A Combined Training Centre for Mentally Defective Children and Adults, combined with a hostel for adults, was also completed at Kwun Tong. The four-storey building comprises a trade training centre with five workshops and five classrooms, together with five dormitories, dining/recreation room, play room, administrative offices and staff quarters.
3.74. Piling work was completed and construction commenced at the end of the year on the new Town Hall at Yuen Long, which will contain a hall with stage and dressing rooms, kitchen, lending and reference library, study rooms, day nursery, roof-top playground and space for activities of local organizations, youth and adult groups and vocational training. Funds have been provided from the Lotteries Fund.
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