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Thursday, January 8, 1976

P.W.D. TAKES PART IN METRICATION EXHIBITION

Visitors to Hong Kong's first metrication exhibition which opens

at the Hong Kong Polytechnic tomorrow (Friday) will be given a deeper insight

into the metrication system and the application of metric units in every

day use.

The Public Works Department, which has been in the forefront of the

gradual changeover to the metric system in Hong Kong, is taking part in the

exhibition and will demonstrate the metrication progress in the various areas

of P.W.D. activities.

The four-day exhibition, jointly organised by the Hong Kong Poly-

technic and the Federation of Hong Kong Industries, will be held at the

Keswick Hall of the Polytechnic, Hung Hom, and will be open daily to the

public between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. from January 9 to 11.

The P.W.D. stand will feature a range of graphic material, including

"think metric" posters, photographs of P.W.D. projects, building plans and

in metric and in some cases already completed maps designed and planned

units.

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Also on display will be a variety of metric measuring equipment and

tools such as metric conversion slides, levelling staffs, survey tapes, scale

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rules, rods, tide gauges, stream gauges and micrometers.

A feature of the display will be electromagnetic measuring equipment

which is being used by the department's Crown Lands and Survey Office in

measuring metric distances.

Copies of metric publications produced by P.W.D. will also be available

for sale at the stand.

Mr. Jim McGuinniety, P.W.D. Metrication Officer, noted today that

since 1971 the Public Works Department had been actively engaged in planning

and implementing the changeover to the metric system for all disciplines

within P.W.D.

"The changeover