senior officers of this Department and inspected the Plover Cove Reservoir and Dams and a model of the Plover Cove Water Scheme.
(ii) The Hon. Jack G. BEALE, M.L.A., Minister for Conservation in the New South Wales Government arrived in June, accompanied by Mrs. BEALE. He visited the Sha Tin Treatment Works and the Plover Cove Reservoir.
(iii) During their summer holidays in the latter part of July and the month of August more than 1,000 school children from some 20 different schools visited various public works projects including Lion Rock Tunnel, Kennedy Town Abattoir, Kennedy Town Incinerator and Cheung Sha Wan Abattoir.
(iv) Messrs. A. GORDON and G. E. YOUNG of the Concrete Society Ltd. (U.K.) were here in August to make arrangements for a party of the Society's members to visit Hong Kong later in the year. The party comprising 43 members of the Society arrived in November and inspected various Resettlement and Low Cost Housing projects, the Garden Road complex and the Murray Barracks Government Offices project.
(v) Alderman PHILLIPS, a senior member of Coventry City Council, Chairman of the Council's Estates and Parliamentary Committee and Vice-Chairman of the Planning and Redevelopment Committee, visited Hong Kong in September. He had talks with senior officers of this Department particularly in regard to problems of redevelopment and road traffic.
(vi) Mr. J. H. C. SORBER of the Ministry of Public Works, Transport & Communication in Nepal, accompanied by Mrs. SORBER, also visited Hong Kong in September, when he inspected the Lai Chi Kok Bay Bridge Works and other civil engineering works.
(vii) Yet another visitor in September was Professor Dinesh Mohan, Director of the Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee, (U.P.), India. He inspected various buildings in the Mong Kok area affected by settlement and discussed general foundation and structural problems in Hong Kong with the Structural Engineering Staff.
(viii) Mr. LYONS and Dr. R. S. MILLARD, Director & Deputy Director respectively of the United Kingdom Road Research Laboratory, visited Hong Kong in November and held technical discussions with senior officers of this Department.
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