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HONG KONG ANNUAL REPORT

a large reclamation scheme at Tsuen Wan, was constructed for use as a ferry terminal by the Hongkong & Yaumati Ferry Company. The natural typhoon shelter which has been absorbed by this reclamation is being replaced by a new one to be sited between Tsing Yi Island and Nga Ying Chau. Dredging for the foundations of the breakwaters was begun with departmental plant.

Buildings. The construction of buildings by the Public Works Department progressed steadily throughout the year, despite difficulties and set-backs caused by the exceptionally heavy rains that fell during May. New buildings were com- pleted or put in hand for a large number of Government departments.

Work at the central reclamation in Victoria included the completion by the end of the year of a three-tiered car park for 418 cars and of the covered pedestrian way and concourse for the recently completed ferry piers. Construction work was also started at the reclamation on the second three-tiered car park which will accommodate 190 cars. Working drawings for the new City Hall group of buildings were nearing completion.

A new ward block was constructed for the old Kowloon Hospital at Argyle Street. The new Polyclinic at Shek Kip Mei Resettlement Estate, the cost of which was partly borne by the balance of funds subscribed to the 1953 Shek Kip Mei Fire Relief Fund, was finished in November. Working drawings were completed for the large number of buildings constituting the second stage of the Castle Peak Mental Hospital, which, with phase I, will provide accommodation for 500 patients, together with administration and service buildings, and staff quarters. Working drawings for the sisters' and nurses' quarters for the 1,300-bed new Kowloon General Hospital were nearing completion, while progress was maintained on the drawings for the hospital itself.

Work for the Police Force included the construction at the Arsenal Yard Headquarters site of an eleven-storey building