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TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1975

BUILDING SURVEY ADVISOR RETIRING

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MR. E.H. ROWLEY, BUILDING SURVEY ADVISOR IS RETIRING THIS MONTH AFTER SOME 18 YEARS OF SERVICE WITH THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.

MR. ROWLEY WAS DUE TO RETIRE LAST OCTOBER, BUT HIS SERIVEŠ WERE EXTENDED BY SIX MONTHS SO AS TO ENABLE HIM TO COMPLETE HIS PRESENT WORK OF REDRAFTING THE BUILDING ORDINANCE.

MR. ROWLEY FIRST JOINED THE P.W.D. IN 1957 AS A BUILDING SURVEYOR IN THE BUILDINGS ORDINANCE OFFICE.

BEFORE COMING TO HONG KONG, HE HAD BEEN WORKING FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF UGANDA AS QUANTITY SURVEYOR IN THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT SINCE 1951.

MR. ROWLEY WAS PROMOTED TO THE POST OF CHIEF BUILDING SURVEYOR IN SEPTEMBER 1961 AND BECAME GOVERNMENT BUILDING SURVEYOR IN 1970. HE WAS PROMOTED BUILDING SURVEY ADVISOR IN APRIL 1973.

MR. ROWLEY ACTED AS DIRECTOR OF BUILDING DEVELOPMENT ON A FEW OCCASIONS,

TO MARK HIS RETIREMENT, MR. ROWLEY WILL BE PRESENTED WITH A GIFT BY THE DIRECTOR OF P.W.D. MR. D.W. MCDONALD. THE PRESENTATION CEREMONY WILL BE HELD ON THURSDAY (APRIL 17) AT 4.30 PM AT THE STAFF CANTEEN ON THE MEZZANINE FLOOR OF MURRAY BUILDING.

NOTE TO EDITORS:

YOU ARE INVITED TO HAVE THE CEREMONY COVERED. PRESS REPRESENTATIVES SHOULD ARRIVE AT THE STAFF CANTEEN NOT LATER THAN 4.25 PM.