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PUBLIC WORKS AND UTILITIES

a dental clinic at Tong Fuk on Lantau Island, an approved school for boys at Kau Wah Keng, a recreation and sports ground at Yuen Long and a playground at Luen Wo Hui, a meteorological station at Cheung Chau, a women's prison at Tai Lam and the Yuen Long Town Hall. The first stage in the programme for the floodlighting of parks and playgrounds in the New Territories was completed.

Projects under construction at the end of the year included various extensions at Kai Tak Airport; three projects for technical education donated by the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club-a technical institute at Morrison Hill, a secondary technical school at Kwun Tong and a secondary technical school at North Kowloon; two fire stations and the Fire Services district headquarters in Canton Road; multi-storey car parks at Rumsey Street and at Yau Ma Tei; site formation and substructure for Lai Chi Kok Hospital; the redevelopment of medical institutions at Sai Ying Pun; site formation work for a new vaccine institute at Pok Fu Lam; a hospital for the mentally sub-normal at Siu Lam for which the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club is providing funds; the Lady Trench Children's Day Nursery and Training Centre with the help of a donation from Sir Shiu-kin Tang, and various playgrounds, sports grounds and other recreational facilities including the swim- ming pool complexes at Morse Park, Kwun Tong and Lei Cheng Uk for which the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club is providing funds. The 24-storey government office block on the former Murray Barracks site was nearing completion.

Work was in hand at the close of the year on design, working drawings and contract documents for some 150 projects including alterations and additions to Grantham College of Education, three fire stations, two 13-storey blocks of departmental quarters and a training school for the Preventive Service, a second block of government offices on the former Murray Barracks site, a mental hospital, a mortuary, three clinics, two of which will be donated by the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club, government office blocks for Tai Po and Tsuen Wan, a depot for the Police Tactical Unit, a new general post office, warders' quarters at Chi Ma Wan for the Prisons Department, a maximum security training centre and a reception centre for the Prisons Department, six markets and