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Air Department The transfer from Rongotai to Paraparaumu involved the provision of additional buildings and facilities. Aeradio Station, West Shore.—Additions to the station and a new generator building are being constructed. Internal Marketing Division Dehydration Factory, Motueka. —Additional dormitory, recreation, and bathroom accommodation for the hostel is proceeding. State Forest Service Alterations have been made to the office at Taupo. Education Department Hutt Intermediate School. —This school was completed and the building occupied. Stratford Technical High School. —A large Army recreation hall was shifted from Pahautanui to Stratford and re-erected. Hawera Technical High School.—This school has benefited to the extent of a large physical-educational block, complete with dressing-room, stores, instructor's room, &c., and two additional class-rooms rebuilt from the Y.M.C.A. building ex Bell Block Aerodrome at New Plymouth. Southland Technical School. —This school is under construction. Dunedin King Edward Technical School. —Home-science block is nearly completed. Sumner School for Deaf. —Laundry was completed. Fire-escapes have been erected at the Receiving Home, Hamilton; also alterations at Whakatane, Omaio, and Oputere (Maori) Schools, including extensive renovations and repairs. Renovations to Maori School at Te Kaha have also been carried out. Justice Department Hamilton and Opotiki Courthouses have been renovated. Labour and Employment Department Immigration hostel accommodation —a major work —has been expeditiously carried out at Fort Dorset, and accommodation at Wigram is now almost completed. Department of Maori Affairs Major alterations have been undertaken at the Maori Girls' Institute, Wellington, and repairs have been carried out at Pendennis Hostel, Wellington. New office accommodation has been completed in Hamilton and new offices were erected in Rotorua. Health Department Health Division The Dental Nurses' Hostel, Glen Road, Wellington, was completed, and assorted works were carried out at various hostels and clinics. Nelson Hospital: Nurses' Home Kitchen. —Work has proceeded throughout the year and, although there has been a shortage of materials, it is hoped the job will be finished early in May. Nelson Hospital: New Main Kitchen. —Work on this contract has been proceeding since last August and all excavation work has been completed. The boxing and rein-forcing-steel has been placed to underside of the ground-floor slab ; however, considerable delay has been caused through shortage of steel.

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