VISITORS DURING THE YEAR
13. His Royal Highness the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, visited the Colony from 6th to 8th March, 1959, in the course of his World Tour and laid the Foundation Stone of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital at King's Park on the afternoon of Saturday, 7th March, 1959.
14. At the invitation of the Hong Kong Government, Dr. G. Charlesworth, Head of the Traffic and Economics Section of the Traffic and Safety Division of the Road Research Laboratory in the United Kingdom, visited the Colony from 29th May to 26th June, 1958 to investigate and advise Government on improvements to the Colony's traffic system.
15. During his visit to the Colony in June 1958, Mr. D. E. E. Gibson, Director General of Works, the War Office, paid a visit to the Department to familiarize himself with the following:
16. (1) P.W.D. Organization in Hong Kong. (2) Method of planning new works. (3) Most suitable types of civilian construction.
Mr. F. A. Allen, Director, Hydraulics Research Station, Wallingford, visited the Colony from 30th June to 8th July, 1958, in connexion with the model being made of the Hong Kong harbour for the study of the effects of reclamations and piers on tidal currents.
17. During July Mr. J. M. Fraser, C.B.E., Chairman of the Singapore Improvement Trust, visited the Colony to see Housing Schemes in the Colony as well as the work of the Hong Kong Housing Society here.
18. Three audit examiners from North Borneo paid a visit during July and August to study accounting methods and equipment here and in the course of their visit called at the accounts section of the Waterworks, Buildings, Electrical, Mechanical, and Roads Branches.
19. On the 22nd November, the Hon. Inche Sardon bin Haji Jubir, Minister for Works, Post and Telecommunications, Federation of Malaya, en route between Tokyo and Saigon, paid an unofficial visit to Public Works Department Headquarters.
20. In the course of his liaison tour of British Territories in South East Asia, Mr. F. H. P. Williams of the Colonial Section, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Road Research Laboratory, spent four days in the Colony in November in connexion with road construction and soil stabilization, etc.
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