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PUBLIC WORKS AND UTILITIES

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together with a playing field, two parks, two temporary hawker bazaars, and other amenities.

In the New Territories work completed included a 24-bed rural clinic and maternity home and a virology laboratory at Castle Peak; a trade training block at Castle Peak Boys Home; a post office and other offices at Tuen Mun San Hui; a fire services train- ing school and a District Fire Services headquarters and ambulance station at Sek Kong, and a fire station at Tai Po. On Smugglers Ridge, above Sha Tin, a new medium wave transmitter station was constructed for Radio Hong Kong. Other projects which were completed included a sports ground at Tsuen Wan, a hawker bazaar at Yuen Long, and a playground at Tai Po.

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Projects under construction at the end of the year included two abattoirs, a women's prison, government offices, a prison staff training school, several types of government staff quarters, two clinics, a fire station, a police station, an animal pound, a training centre for mentally deficient adults and children, further alterations to Queen Mary Hospital and a new convalescent block at Kowloon Hospital. At Yuen Long, in the New Territories, work was well under way on the first of a series of secondary schools for which funds are being raised by the Heung Yee Kuk. Work was ready to start on Radio Hong Kong's new building.

Work was in hand at the close of the year on designs, working drawings and contract documents for about 70 projects including the 1,300-bed Lai Chi Kok Hospital, three fire stations and a Fire Services district headquarters, four clinics and a vaccine institute, a technical institute, a training centre and an approved school, a home for mental defectives, a prison and a prison mental hospital, two large public swimming pool complexes, three multi-storey car parks, two magistracy buildings, a British Forces primary school, alterations at Kai Tak Airport, several police buildings and govern- ment and military staff quarters.

DRAINAGE

All the urban areas and the newly-developing townships have water-borne sewerage systems in various stages of development. In many of the older areas the sewers were constructed 50 or more