tional vernacular primary schools under the Education Department's Subsidy Code.
73. Ground floor rooms are used as casework centres, clinics, and for a great variety of other welfare purposes, including two family planning clinics, eight milk distribution centres, four children's libraries, clubs, nurseries, vocational training centres, noodle factories and Loan and Savings Association branch offices.
74. Crown Land in the vicinity of the resettlement estates is also reserved for schools and welfare projects. There is a large Government polyclinic at Shek Kip Mei. Government schools are situated in or near most existing estates and are planned for all future ones. A 24-class- room Maryknoll Mission Primary School was completed in Wong Tai Sin during the year. The Wong Tai Sin Community Centre which was built with funds provided by the people of the United States of America to Hong Kong as part of their contribution towards the World Refugee Year was fully used during the year and it is hoped to build similar community centres near some of the larger estates in the future.
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75. Large recreation spaces are provided within the boundaries of each estate, similar in design to playgrounds and recreation spaces in other parts of the urban areas. They include small fenced playgrounds for young children, enclosed areas with lawns and benches for the more elderly, volley ball and basketball courts and miniature football grounds.
CHAPTER VII
RESETTLEMENT FACTORIES
76. Most squatter areas in the Colony include a number of work- shops and small factories. Some of these workshops can be resettled in the ground floor rooms of resettlement estates, but others are un- suitable for this type of accommodation because they use power-driven machinery or other processes likely to disturb the residents in the block. It is to provide for these concerns that resettlement factories have been built.
77. The appearance of these factory buildings is similar to domestic 'H' block, but there are important structural differences. The weight is borne on columns spaced at twelve feet intervals. Each floor of each wing consists of 9,000 square feet of open space divided by a staircase and a ramp in the centre, and with additional staircase access at each end of the wings. Each floor is divisible into units of 198 square
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