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PUBLIC WORKS AND UTILITIES

multi-storey car parks at Rumsey Street and at Yau Ma Tei, several types of government staff quarters, a market at North Point, further alterations to Queen Mary Hospital, the new con- valescent ward block at Kowloon Hospital, site formation for Lai Chi Kok Hospital, Yau Ma Tei government slipway buildings, a cargo examination shed at Shek Wu Hui, various extensions at Kai Tak Airport, St John's Hospital outpatient clinic at Cheung Chau, Tang Shiu Kin Hospital, three large swimming pool complexes at Kwun Tong, Morse Park and Lei Cheng Uk, a recreation and sports ground at Yuen Long, Police Training School at Aberdeen, Siu Lam Hospital, two fire stations and a police station, an approved school for boys at Kau Wah Keng and the Fire Services district headquarters in Canton Road.

Work was in hand at the close of the year on design, working drawings and contract documents for about 80 projects including the 1,300-bed Lai Chi Kok Hospital, Sir Robert Black Training College, two fire stations, a fisheries marine licensing station, a training centre, a meteorological station, a polyclinic, a further swimming pool complex, two magistracy buildings, police head- quarters, several government and military staff quarters, further major alterations and extensions at Kai Tak Airport, government television studios, a mental hospital, a public mortuary, a vaccine institute, a medical department laundry, several police buildings, a new general post office, a transit mail sorting office, a community centre, indoor sports stadium and a number of parks and playgrounds.

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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 years ago and are no longer adequate to serve the large blocks of flats now being built. To bring these systems up to modern standards a programme of works, begun a few years ago, involving duplication and replacement of existing sewers and the construction of large intercepting sewers was continued.

When the programme is completed all sewage, after preliminary treatment, will discharge through submarine outfalls into the main tidal currents around the Colony, wherever possible. Current