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Protes by Mr. A. W. Wills.
In Fovember 1890 I was
informed that the Council of the
Royal Institute of British Architects
Lof
which
ich body
I
an
an Associate)
were prepared to recommend me
for a professional apponitment under the Government of Hongkong if I
willing to go
were w
2.
0.0
there.
may say with regard my previous experience that I had
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a vorked wi
my profession for
many years in London, and had also had
anue
of the
shree of
York
and
the advantage of seeing best work in the United States
where I spent some time mi three
the best offices in stew Boston in order to gain experience.
hardly
There is
a class of building which in the course of my professional. experience I have not had to
to
design.
For some little time before leaving
London
London I had been in private practice.
and had carried out some works.
there.
کو
Ir
ar
interview I held
with Sir Montague Ommancy with reference to this apponitment Jasked him what was the nature of the work I should be called on to do.
He told at Hongkong.
General was apponited the Surveyor General was
chiefly.
that
ad
on account of his experience
of walls (the Praya Reclamation Scheme being then contemplated) and as it was proposed
proposed to build some - important public buildings lawenigst
and
which he machined a gave public offices) the Government
wanted a
specialist who could make designs, speciications, and estimates for these buildings and supernikend their erection. I then showed her.
drawings and designs to show the nature of the work I had done, and
oned
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