Hong Kong Builder
GENERAL CONTRACTORS' ASSOCIATION OF HONG KONG
It is probably not generally known that there exists in Hong Kong a General Contractors' Association which was formed and registered on the 7th August, 1937. The first officers and council were as follows:-
President:
Hon. Secretary: Members of the Committee:
Mr. G. B. Gifford Hull. Mr. H. M. Alexander. Mr. V. E. Kingsbury. Mr. Pang Yung Ting. Mr. Lam Chik Suen. Mr. Hugh Braga.
Generally speaking, the objects of the Association are to promote and protect the interests of the building and contracting trades in such manner as conditions shall from time to time require. Following is set out some of the objects of the Association in detail:
1. To promote the interests of the building and con- tracting trades and of the persons engaged in such trades in Hongkong, Kowloon, and the New Territories (herein referred to as Hongkong).
2. To engage permanently or temporarily and on such terms as may be thought fit one or more qualified technical experts for the assistance of the members of the Association or if thought fit of others and on such conditions as may be from time to time decided upon by the Association.
3. To advocate initiate and/or promote and/or oppose legislation whether Government or Urban and including bye-laws and regulations as may be thought beneficial to the building and contracting trades and/or persons engaged in such trades in Hong Kong and or the Association.
4. To encourage initiate support and/or maintain and/or contribute to the maintenance of any scheme body association or institution having as its objects or one of its objects the provision of training for persons desiring to enter or being concerned in the building or contract- ing trades.
5. To establish an employment bureau for the build- ing and/or contracting trades.
6. To collect and circulate statistics and other in- formation relating to the building and/or contracting trades.
7. To adjust controversies between members of the Association.
8. To arbitrate in the matter of disputes arising out of commercial transactions between members of the Association or other parties willing or agreeing to abide by the judgment or decision of the Association.
9. To frame and maintain (so far as lawfully may be) rules to regulate and facilitate the transaction of buildings and contracting business.
10. To establish and maintain (so far as lawfully may be) uniformity in the usages of the building and con- tracting trades.
11. To communicate with similar associations and other mercantile and public bodies throughout the world and concert and promote measures in the interests of the building and/or contracting trades.
12. To establish and support, or aid in the establish- ment or support of associations, institutions, funds or trusts calculated to benefit employees or ex-employees of the Association or the dependents or connections of such persons, to grant pensions and allowances, to make payments towards insurance and to subscribe or guaran- tee money for any charitable, patriotic or benevolent purposes or for any exhibition or for any public or general or useful object.
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For various reasons the Association has not been very active up to the present. On 30th November, 1938, the first annual general meeting of the Association was held and the following officers and Committee were elected:
President:
Hon. Secretary: Members of the Committee:
Mr. V. E. Kingsbury. Mr. Henry Graye.
Mr. A. W. de Broekert. Mr. Lam Chik Suen. Mr. Hugh Braga. Mr. Pang Yung Ting.
It was decided during the meeting that definite steps would be taken to interest contractors in the objects of the Association and to weld the Association into an active and beneficial unit of Hong Kong's Building Industry.
The Council invite all contractors in good standing to communicate with the Hon. Secretary, 2nd floor, Hong Kong Bank Building, who will be glad to furnish them with further information.
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香港建築承商總會
香港之有建築承商總會,社會上似未週知,該會 由中西承商依例立案,成立於一九三七年八月七日, 其首任委員會名單為:一
會長
義務司理 委員
G. B. G. HE
H. M. 亞力山大先生
V.E.京士伯利先生 彭潤庭先生
林柏萱先生
H. 布力架先生
該會之宗旨,以隨時體察情形設法增進維護建築 承商之權益為主,茲擇其會章中最重要之數則,詳舉 如下:-
1 增進凡在香港九龍及新界從事建築業務之承包
工及職工等之共同利益。
2 聘請建築專家一人或數人,以勸助本會會員或會
外各界,其聘期人,與任用條件,求助手續, 將由本會隨時議定之。