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FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1975
SHING MUN FLOOD CONTROL SCHEME NEARS COMPLETION
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WORK ON THE FINAL STAGE OF THE SHING MUN RIVER FLOOD CONTROL
SCHEME IN SHA TIN WILL BEGIN NEXT MONTH.
THE WORK IS TO EXTEND THE TIN SAM NULLAH BY 1,000 FLET TO LINK IT
WITH THE SCUTHERN BANK OF THE SHING MUN RIVER CHANNEL.
THIS WILL INCLUDE SOME DREDGING, WIDENING AND RE-ALIGNMENT WORK
TO BE CARRIED OUT IN THIS EXTENDED SECTION,
IN ADDITION, ROADWAYS ON TOP OF THE EMBANKMENTS AND A CONCRETE FOOTBRIDGE ACROSS THE NULLAH WILL BE BUILT TO PROVIDE EASY ACCESS TO LUK
WO YUEN AND CHE KUNG TEMPLE.
THE WORK HAS BEEN DESIGNED BY THE DRAINAGE WORKS DIVISION CF THE CIVIL ENGINEERING OFFICE, P.W.D. WHICH WILL ALSO SUPERVISE THE CONSTRUCTION.
TENDERS FOR THIS PROJECT WERE INVITED TODAY AND THE WORK IS,
EXPECTED TO TAKE ABOUT 15 MONTHS TO COMPLETE.
THE WHOLE SHING MUN RIVER FLOOD CONTROL SCHEME IS AIMED AT GIVING RESIDENTS IN NEARBY LOW-LYING AREAS ADDED PROTECTION FROM FLOOD DURING
PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN.
REQUIEM MASS FOR MR. SORBY
A REQUIEM MASS FOR MR. TERENCE DARE SORBY WILL BE SAID AT ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH, GARDEN ROAD AT 6 P.M. ON MONDAY (JULY 7).
THE LATE MK. SCRBY, FORMERLY DIRECTOR OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE HONG KONG TRADE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL, DIED AT HIS HOME IN EDENBRIDGE, KENT, ENGLAND ON JUNE 21. HE WAS 57.
FUNERAL SERVICE WAS HELD AT ST. LAWRENCE'S CHURCH, EDENBRIDGE
ON JUNE 28.
MR. SCRBY JOINED THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT SERVICE IN 1946 AS AN ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER. HE WAS APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF COMERCE AND INDUSTRY IN 1966, A POST HE HELD UNTIL HIS RETIREMENT IN 1970.
FOLLOWING HIS RETIREMENT THAT SAME YEAR, HE BECAME EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE HONG KONG TRADE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL UNTIL SEPTEMBER, 1973 WHEN
HE RETIRED.
HE WAS AWARDED THE CHE IN JUNE, 1973.
MR. SORBY IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, ANN; TWO SONS, NICHOLAS AND TIMOTHY AND TWO DAUGHTERS, LINDA AND FRANCESCA.
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