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PUBLIC WORKS AND UTILITIES

hospital of 1,338 beds with 31 surgical wards and seven operating theatre suites, and with 21 medical wards including 10 for children with an operating suite. Facilities include a most up-to-date radio- logical institute and a specialist clinic, both generously donated by the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club, together with other specialist departments for physiotherapy and pathology, a central sterile supply, and a casualty reception unit. The total cost in- cluding equipment and medical staff quarters amounted to a little over $71 million. The group of buildings occupies a site in the centre of the Kowloon peninsula, commanding fine views of Hong Kong Island and the harbour to the south and the Kowloon Hills to the north. In addition to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, the Robert Black Clinic and a medical stores-building at Pok Fu Lam were also completed and occupied.

A police station and two police posts were built in the Deep Bay area; 700 married quarters for police rank and file were finished at Tin Kwong Road and 100 more at Tsuen Wan, while additional barrack accommodation was completed at the Aberdeen Police Training School. Three 30-classroom Government primary schools were finished, a smaller number than the recent average for one year. The first stage of Kowloon Tsai Park was finished and includes an open air swimming pool, while a number of other public playgrounds and rest gardens were formed and equipped. Nine public latrines and bath houses were completed in various localities. The first beach building was finished at Deep Water Bay and provides a refreshment kiosk, changing and toilet accom- modation, a first-aid post and some storage space. Other completed buildings include electrical and mechanical workshops in Kowloon; a probation and remand home for boys; quarantine kennels; offices at Beaconsfield Arcade; a multi-storey car park for 740 cars on the former Murray Parade Ground; 140 quarters for senior Government officers; various alterations and extensions, and a number of smaller projects.

New building projects under construction at the end of the year included three secondary schools; the Belilios Public School and the Ellis Kadoorie School, the latter with an adjoining primary school; also extensions to King George V School, and to the Hong Kong Technical College. Wong Tai Sin police station was nearing completion while construction was proceeding on two other police