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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1988

WITH THREE JOB

BUT THE OVERSEAS CIVIL SERVICE AGAIN BECKONED OFFERS. HIS CHOICE WAS CHIEF DRAUGHTSMAN/NEW TERITORIES, EVENTUALLY ARRIVED IN HONG KONG IN NOVEMBER 1964.

BRINGING

SOME

ΤΟ

AND HE

THOSE

OF

OF

SORT OF ORDER THE ACTUAL TASK INCREDIBLE OLD DISTRICT OFFICE CARTOGRAPHIC SECTIONS CAME AS A BIT A SHOCK BUT SOME SEMBLANCE OF ORDER WAS EVENTUALLY ACHIEVED.

SINCE THE NT POST AFTER ONE TOUR, HE WAS JOB HUNTING AGAIN,

OTHER SUITABLE POST IN HONG OFFERED NO SECURE FUTURE AND THE ONLY

WAS HELD BY A KONG CARTOGRAPHER/CROWN LANDS AND SURVEY OFFICE CAREER OFFICER.

THE POST HE HAD JUST BEEN OFFERED

OF CARTOGRAPHIC TRAINING CARTOGRAPHER HAD OFFICER IN SABAH WHEN WORD CAME THAT THE INCUMBENT DIED AND IT WOULD BE WORTH RETURNING TO HONG KONG.

IN JUNE 1969. AT MR EMPSON ASSUMED THE POST OF CARTOGRAPHER

CARRIED OUT IN THAT TIME, THERE WAS LITTLE REAL MAP MAKING ACTUALLY

THEN WAS REALLY LARGE SCALE SURVEY HONG KONG. ALL THAT WAS DONE

MAPS PRODUCED IN DRAUGHTING WITH ALL TOPOGRAPHIC AND OTHER COLOURED THE U.K.

OF

WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF THE THE SITUATION IMPROVED SLOWLY LATEST METHODS AND NEW REPROGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT, AND THE PUBLICATION COLOURED MAPPING EXPANDED RAPIDLY.

ON

HIS

NEARLY

OF

THE ON

TWO DECADES AS LOOKING BACK

HEAD CARTOGRAPHIC UNIT, HE WAS PROMPTED TO QUIP THAT "PUTTING HONG KONG

ATMOSPHERE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOME THE MAP" AND CREATING THE

SATISFYING AND SIGNIFICANT SUPERB LOCAL CARTOGRAPHERS WERE HIS MOST ACCOMPLISHMENTS.

IS HONG KONG

NOW PROBABLY THE ACCOMPLISHMENT HAS BEEN

IT WAS HARDLY AN EMPTY BOAST. BEST MAPPED TERRITORY IN THE WORLD AND THIS RECOGNISED.

AN

FIRST TIMR IN IN 1986, THE CARTOGRAPHIC UNIT ENTERED FOR THE

AND WON COMPETITION

A HIGHLY COMMENDED AWARD INTERNATIONAL

MAP PRESENTED BY THE BRITISH CARTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY FOR ITS TOPOGRAPHIC

THE FRONTISPIECE OF "THE TERRITORY OF HONG KONG", WHICH APPEARED AT THE 1986 HONG KONG YEAR BOOK.

t

SERIES MAP

BARTHOLOMEW

WORLD"

AWARD

WHICH

THE 1987 BCS DESIGN AWARD WAS FOR THE "COUNTRYSIDE

WHILE THE JOHN OF THE NORTH-EAST NEW TERRITORIES"

THE WAS FOR A MAP ENTITLED "HONG KONG BUYING FROM APPEARED AS THE END-PAPER MAP IN THE 1987 HONG KONG YEAR BOOK.

NO

PLACID

-H

IT CAME AS

VETERAN SURPRISE THAT THE USUALLY

THINK THAT CARTOGRAPHER SHOWED TRACES OF ANNOYANCE WHEN PEOPLE STILL

RY HONG KONG MAPS ARE BEING PRODUCED OVERSEAS OR SOMEHOW APPEAR AS IF MAGIC DIRECT FROM THE PRINTING PRESSES.

/"I THINK