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MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1980

THE CHANGES IN THE VALUES

UNIT VALUES, AND VOLUMES OF RE-EXPORTS CLASSIFIED BY END-USE ARE SHOWN AS FOLLOWS :-

CHANGES IN 1979 OVER 1978

RE-EXPORT UNIT VALUES

RE-EXPORT

RE-EXPORT

VALUES

VOLUME

FOODSTUFFS

+ 35%

+ 155

+ 18%

CONSUMER GOODS

+ 49%

+ 20%

+ 25%

CAPITAL GOODS

+ 62%

+ 20%

+ 34%

RAW MATERIALS AND

SEMI-MANUFACTURES

+ 56%

+ 20%

+ 30%

FUELS

+ 15%

+ 39%

17%

ALL COMMODITIES

+ 32%

+ 20$

+ 27%

-

DPW OPENS SEMINAR ON PRESTRESSED CONSTRUCTION *****

THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS, MR DAVID MCDONALD, TODAY (MONDAY) OPENED THE T.Y. LIN SEMINAR ON +PRESTRESSING IN THE BOS+ IN EXCELSIOR HOTEL, CAUSEWAY BAY.

THE THREE-DAY SEMINAR, SPONSORED JOINTLY BY THE READY-MIXED CONCRETE ASSOCIATION OF SINGAPORE AND THE CONCRETE SOCIETY (HK) LTD. WAS CALLED IN HONOUR OF PROFESSOR T.Y. LIN'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE ENGINEERING WORLD, IN PARTICULAR HIS WORK IN THE FIELD OF PRESTRESSING AND PRESTRESSED CONCRETE.

PROFESSOR LIN, AS A PRACTISING CONSULTING ENGINEER, HEADS THE T.Y. LIN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION WITH OFFICES IN THE UNITED STATES, HONG KONG, TAIWAN, SINGAPORE, BANGKOK, HAWAII AND SOUTH AMERICA.

SPEAKING AT THE OPENING CEREMONY, MR MCDONALD SAID IT GAVE HIM MUCH PLEASURE TO SEE, BY THE ATTENDANCE AT THE SEMINAR, THE INTEREST WHICH EXISTS IN HONG KONG IN THE APPLICATION OF PRESTRESSING TO CONCRETE STRUCTURES+.

+HONG KONG IS NOWADAYS, WITH A FEW NOTABLE EXCEPTIONS, A REINFORCED CONCRETE CITY AND PRESTRESSING IS BY NO MEANS NEW TO IT, HE SAID.

+NEVERTHELESS, A SEMINAR SUCH AS THAT ON WHICH YOU ARE ABOUT TO EMBARK IS AN EXCELLENT MEANS OF HEARING OF, AND DISCUSSING, NEW METHODS AND APPLICATIONS OF PRESTRESSING WHICH HAVE BEEN USED WITH SUCCESS IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD.+

/MR MCDONALD