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auditorium. Other important parts of the building will include a small theatre, a ballroom, a banqueting hall, a library, and a small museum and art gallery. His Excellency the Governor ceremonially laid the City Hall's foundation stone on 25th February 1960.

Alterations at the Supreme Court Building produced two new court rooms. The large Causeway Bay Magistracy Building and the North Kowloon Magistracy were completed; these buildings also provide accommodation in their upper floors for Government offices. A third Magistracy was being built at Fanling in the New Territories.

The Police occupied completed buildings at Cheung Sha Wan comprising over 800 rank and file married quarters, a clinic and a 24 classroom school. Site formation for another like scheme began at Tin Kwong Road, and designs are in preparation for yet more. After approval of the designs for the new Police Training School at Aberdeen, which will provide barrack accommodation for 800 recruits with messing facilities, a laundry and a canteen, architects began the working drawings for the first stage. Police Inspectorate married quarters were completed at Green Lane, and extra barrack quarters at two police stations in the New Territories; a Police Post at Rennie's Mill and other police stations, quarters, and office were at various stages of design or construction.

Work began on two fire stations, one at Aberdeen where the crowded knots of sampans make the risk of fire ever-threatening, and the other at Lai Chi Kok. Drawings were nearly ready for a third station to serve the industrial satellite of Kwun Tong. Con- struction of 100 married quarters for the Fire Brigade at North Point was delayed because squatters were on the site; sketch plans had been prepared for a similar scheme in Kowloon and additional barrack quarters extended the Shek Wu Hui Fire Station in the New Territories.

The rebuilding of the old Victoria Prison Officers' quarters, and workshop extensions at Stanley Prison, were finished and a scheme prepared for warders' barrack quarters. Working drawings for a young offenders' training centre at Cape Collinson, and designs for additional warders' quarters at Chi Ma Wan on Lantau Island, disposed of work for the Prisons Department.

After delays through loose boulders at the Buxey Lodge site, the scheme for 60 non-departmental quarters for Government