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LAND, PUBLIC WORKS AND UTILITIES

During the year, work also continued on the Kennedy Town wholesale market, which will provide 62 000 square metres of market space in phases for food wholesale facilities. Phase I is programmed to be completed in 1991.

In addition to the active development programme of the Regional Council projects in the new towns, work on the permanent Regional Council Chambers and the Regional Services Department Headquarters building began after a suitable site was located in Sha Tin. Piling work for the project is underway, and work on the superstructure will begin in mid-1989, for completion in late 1990.

In the urban areas, two multi-purpose Urban Council complexes were completed during the year. The Quarry Bay complex consists of an indoor games hall, a district library, offices, market and a cooked food centre while the New Western Complex provides a 523-seat theatre auditorium, exhibition and lecture rooms, an indoor games hall, market and a cooked food centre. The Choi Hung Road Playground Redevelopment Stage II was also completed, providing recreational and market facilities for the San Po Kong and Wong Tai Sin areas. Other major cultural projects started during the year included the Museum of Science and Technology in Tsim Sha Tsui East.

Work on the Hong Kong Cultural Centre on the Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront is now entering its final stages and the building is expected to be completed in early 1989 and to be opened to the public in November.

The new extension to the Hong Kong International Airport Passenger Terminal was completed during the year. To meet the demand for parking space, the carpark next to the terminal is being extended to incorporate two more floors, and work on this began in late 1988.

Several projects for the British Forces and disciplined services were also completed during the year. These included Tamar Naval Workshop, new fire stations in Junk Bay, Lamma Island, Shek Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Tai Po, Ambulance Depots in Yuen Long, Tuen Mun and Junk Bay, the new Border Crossing Point at Lok Ma Chau, the Royal Hong Kong Police Museum, Reception and Closed Centres in Tuen Mun. Construction of Phase I of the new Police Headquarters is also in progress with completion scheduled in late 1989. The expansion of Hong Kong's medical facilities continued. Tuen Mun Hospital is now entering the final commissioning stages. Work began on the Pamela Youde Hospital, formerly named as Eastern District Hospital, and is due for completion in 1992. The second and third phases of the extension of Queen Mary Hospital are progressing, and the entire improvement and extension programme is due for completion on schedule in 1992. Work on the superstructure of the 700-bed Sha Tin Convalescent and Infirmary Hospital started in May 1988, and extension work on Tang Shiu Kin Hospital and improvement work on Tsan Yuk Hospital continued during the year, and are expected to be completed in 1990 and 1991 respectively.

Survey and Mapping

The Survey and Mapping Office (SMO) is responsible for defining and recording land boundaries of all existing and new land developments, providing and maintaining the territory-wide survey control system, mapping the territory at various scales for land administration, engineering and government purposes, managing land information and preserving the territory's land records.

Horizontal and vertical control networks covering the whole territory, known as geodetic control systems, have been established and maintained to a high degree of accuracy. These networks provide the necessary origin and control points for the production of cadastral