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service. Modifications to the old freight building and a new airport fire station have been completed. New headquarters for the Royal Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force have also been completed at the airport.

Work completed in the New Territories included a fire station at Tuen Mun San Hui; an ambulance depot at Tuen Mun; 410 quarters for married rank and file members of the Fire Services Department at Tsuen Wan; stage one of 600 quarters for married rank and file members of the Fire Services Department at Sha Tin; and, also at Sha Tin, 400 quarters for married rank and file members of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force. Other projects completed were a government office building at Tai Po; 59 quarters for married officers of the armed forces at Sek Kong Village; and a meteorological station at Chek Lap Kok Island to collect data for a feasibility study related to siting a replacement airport there. Projects under construction at the end of 1979 included a psychiatric wing at Princess Margaret Hospital; phase two of the International Mail Centre; the Queen Elizabeth Stadium at Morrison Hill, an 11-storey multi-purpose sports and entertainment building with an adaptable arena capable of seating about 3,500 spectators; at Hung Hom, an indoor stadium able to seat 12,000 people, with a 100-metre square space-frame roof; the Hong Kong Space Museum at Tsim Sha Tsui; reprovisioning of Lei Yue Mun Fort and Sham Shui Po military camp to release land to the government; a swimming pool and park at Chai Wan; an ambulance depot at Ngau Tau Kok; standard urban clinics at Ngau Tau Kok and Lei Muk Shue; a dental teaching hospital at Sai Ying Pun; Sha Tin Hospital and a polyclinic; and a Medical and Health Department laundry at Pik Uk Prison.

Other projects included 252 non-departmental government quarters at Mount Butler; an ambulance depot at Sha Tin; for the Fire Services Department, a divisional fire station and New Territories command headquarters at Sha Tin; a new residence for the Deputy Commander British Forces and 174 married soldiers' quarters, both situated at Stanley Fort; the first phase of a polyclinic at Tuen Mun; the reprovisioning of the Air Mail Centre at Hong Kong International Airport; a swimming pool complex at Sha Tin; an indoor games hall at Kwai Chung; and a market in Tuen Mun.

At the end of the year, design, working drawings and contract documents were being prepared for more than 380 projects. They included a secondary technical school at Kwai Shing; the second stage of the technical institute at Kowloon Tong; five standard secondary schools at Tsuen Wan, three at Sha Tin, one at Tuen Mun and another at Yuen Long; and two standard primary schools at Tuen Mun and one each at Tsuen Wan and Sha Tin. Other standard schools included in development programmes for the new towns in the New Territories were entering the investigation stage. Other projects were a Fire Services Department headquarters and principal fire station on Hong Kong Island; fire stations at Sai Wan Ho, Kotewall Road, Kowloon Bay, Sha Tin and Tuen Mun; an ambulance depot, training school and command headquarters at Ho Man Tin; ambulance depots at Quarry Bay, Cheung Sha Wan and Yuen Long; a cattle quarantine depot on Tsing Yi Island; a new building for the Government Printing Department; wholesale markets at Cheung Sha Wan and at Western District; and multi-storey car parks at Kwun Tong, Causeway Bay and Tsuen Wan.

Other building projects at the investigation or pre-contract planning stages included an extension to Broadcasting House; the new Supreme Court; a new district court and mag- istracy building at Wan Chai reclamation; magistracy buildings at Kwun Tong and Sha Tin; standard urban clinics at Lam Tin and Kwai Chung; the second phase of Tuen Mun Polyclinic; a nurses' training school and quarters in Lai King Hill Road; children's dental clinics at Kowloon, Tsuen Wan and Sha Tin; a hospital and quarters at Tuen Mun; and