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administration building for the Second Lion Rock Tunnel; married soldiers' quarters at Sek Kong; a central servicing station at Borneo Lines; and, in connection with the transfer of Royal Air Force facilities from Kai Tak to Sek Kong, officers' and airmen's quarters, an administration building and a community centre.

At Hong Kong International Airport, work was under way at the end of the year on further modifications to the terminal building including the reprovisioning of the arrivals hall and restaurant, new piers, the first stage of a multi-storey car park, the refurbishing of the existing terminal building and the modifying of the old freight building.

Projects under construction at the end of 1978 included the reprovisioning of Victoria Technical School; the first stage of Kowloon Tong Technical Institute; the refurbishing of Government House; a multi-purpose auditorium at Tsuen Wan; a mental hospital at Lai Chi Kok; extensions and improvements to Fanling Hospital; a general clinic at Sha Tin; standard urban clinics at Ngau Tau Kok and Lei Muk Shue; a dental teaching clinic at Sai Ying Pun; additional staff quarters at Queen Mary Hospital; the reprovisioning of Diamond Hill Crematorium; further extensions to the columbarium at Cape Collinson Crematorium; government office buildings at Tai Po and Tuen Mun; the Hong Kong Space Museum at Tsim Sha Tsui; the Queen Elizabeth Indoor Games Centre at Morrison Hill; an indoor stadium at Hung Hom; an indoor games hall at Kwai Chung; a judiciary building at Gascoigne Road in Kowloon; a maximum security prison at Shek Pik; and the second phase of the International Mail Centre.

Other projects included ambulance depots at Ngau Tau Kok, Sha Tin and Tuen Mun; fire stations at Sha Tin and San Hui; a police station at Tuen Mun; police rank and file quarters at Ho Man Tin; markets at Bowrington Road on Hong Kong Island and at Tsuen Wan, and a market and hawker bazaar at Sha Tin; a promenade in Central District; a swimming pool and park at Chai Wan; a temple for Gurkha troops at Gun Club Hill Barracks; the reprovisioning of the headquarters of the Royal Hong Kong Regiment; non-departmental quarters at Mount Butler; village housing at Tsing Yi, Pat Tsz, Wo and Kwai Tei; the new Headquarters for the British Forces in Hong Kong at HMS Tamar; and a number of other projects associated with the transfer of the military facilities from Victoria Barracks to HMS Tamar. Several playgrounds, amenity areas, latrines, hawker bazaars and floodlighting schemes were also in hand.

At the end of the year, design, working drawings or contract documents were being prepared for more than 200 projects. They included the redevelopment of Mong Kok and Sha Tin Railway Stations; the new Supreme Court; a cultural centre at Tsim Sha Tsui and cultural complexes in Sha Tin and Tuen Mun; composite government build- ings at Sai Wan Ho, Kwun Tong and in Central District; a new general hospital and staff quarters at Sha Tin; polyclinics at east Kowloon and Tuen Mun; a standard urban clinic at Lam Tei; the Yung Fung Shee Memorial Medical Centre in east Kowloon; the third general nurses' training school; accommodation for police emergency units and the Traffic Division, Kowloon; a cadet school for the Royal Hong Kong Police Force; and police stations at Sau Mau Ping, Hang Hau and Pat Heung; the Hong Kong Fire Services Headquarters and principal fire station as well as fire stations at Pok Fu Lam, Sheung Wan, Wong Tai Sin, Shek Kip Mei and Sai