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containing a school at ground-floor level and 300 rank and file married quarters on the upper floors. Working drawings were well advanced for a larger scheme for 800 rank and file married quarters at Cheung Sha Wan, Kowloon, and drawings were completed for a new divisional police station at Tsuen Wan with rank and file barrack quarters, single officers' quarters and four flats for married officers and their families. By the end of the year the site level for this station had been raised by some 30 feet and a large box culvert for storm water constructed. Extensions to Yau Ma Tei Police Station were also completed, as were 112 rank and file married quarters and a block containing 16 flats for married officers and their families at Western Police Station. Barrack huts were erected at two other stations.

For the Education Department, the workshops and class- room blocks for the new Technical College at Hung Hom, illustrated elsewhere in the Report, were finished, and the construction of the assembly hall is due to follow shortly. Plans exist for standard 24-classroom primary schools, each to accommodate 1,080 children; owing to shortage of land these schools incorporate playgrounds on the flat roofs, and a covered play and assembly area under each building at ground level. One school of this type was completed at Fuk Wing Street; a second was well under way at Li Cheng Uk, and on Hong Kong Island site formation had started for a third at Cheung Hong Street.

Based on drawings prepared during the year for standard three-bay fire stations, with firemen's quarters on the three upper floors, one station was completed at North Point, whilst, on the mainland, work on three others was started at Yuen Long, Tsuen Wan and Ma Tau Chung.

Work for the Urban Services Department included the completion of a new market at Kansu Street, Kowloon, with 126 stalls on the ground and first floors for meat, fish, poultry and fruit, and staff quarters on the second floor; a new open-air swimming pool at Victoria Park, which