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To provide increased teacher training facilities, the Ministry asked for M$5.5 million. Work had started on the construction of a new Day Training Centre in Johore Bahru and the Malayan Teachers College in Penang would be expanded.

A further M$5.8 million would be spent on post- secondary technical and agricultural education. Of this, M$2.5 million would be used to buy science and technical equipment for the Technical College and to meet pre- liminary expenditure on the proposed establishment of two polytechnics in Ipoh and Kuala Lumpur. The remaining M$3.3 million will be used to expand the College of Agri- culture in Serdang.

A sum of M$7 million was earmarked for the Uni- versity of Malaya to carry out projects in the Faculties of Science, Engineering, staff housing and the students' re- sidential colleges.

Of the planned expenditure of M$85 million West Malaysia would get $73 million, Sarawak $7.5 million, and Sabah $4.5 million.

COURSE FOR LAND USE PLANNERS

A COURSE for training future land use planners to cope with the growing development was much needed in Hong Kong, said Mr. J.E. Jackson, chairman of the Hong Kong Branch of the Town Planning Institute.

Speaking at the annual dinner of the branch last month. Mr. Jackson said that there was a growing aware- ness and interest in the profession and the demand for adequately trained land use planners would steadily increase.

"Our immediate need is for a post-graduate evening course for the benefit of those who are unable to give two or three years of their lives to full-time training", he said. "However the institute also hoped a full-time course would be made available as soon as possible".

Mr. Jackson said that the training of such planners was the responsibility of the branch and he called on the Colony's two universities for urgent assistance in the de- velopment of the profession. Great encouragement had been received from the parent body in London, the Minis- try of Overseas Development and the United Nations.

He commended the Hong Kong Government's decision to prepare a policy plan for future land use in the Colony by setting up a Colony outline planning team.

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Piling for the first phase of the huge Government sports complex to be built at Kallang Park, Singapore, will be com- pleted next month. The main stadium is scheduled to be ready by the end of next year. The picture shows a model of the M$1.3 million main stadium and bitumen running track.

CEMENT PRODUCERS MERGE

THE two biggest cement manufacturers in Malaysia Pan Malaysia Cement Works Ltd. and Malayan Cement Ltd. have decided to merge into a new private com- pany to be called the Associated Pan Malaysia Cement Sendirian Berhad (APMC).

Merger terms were concluded by Mr. J. S. Duthie, chairman of Malayan Cement, and Dato Low Yat, chair- man of Pan Malaysia Cement. Each partner will have a 50 per cent holding in the new company.

At present Malayan Cement has an authorised capital of M$50 million and an issued share capital of about M$18.3 million. Pan Malaysia has authorised capital of

While Hong Kong goes through yet another period of mild water rationing the gigantic Plover Cove reservoir scheme, which aims to solve the colony's persistent water shortage, moves a stage nearer completion. The dam, which seals off a 31⁄2 mile sea inlet in the rural New Territories, has been completed and a start has been made on pumping out the salt water. Summer rains will stock Plover Cove with fresh water through a network of underground tunnels.

Far East Architect & Builder April, 1967

The reservoir is capable of storing almost 40,000 million gal- lons, which will treble Hong Kong's water reserves and make full 24-nour-a-day supplies possible during the dry winter months. The picture shows the crest of the main dam wall stretching across the mouth of Plover Cove inlet. The sea water on the left is being pumped out at the rate of 260 million gallons a day and it is estimated that the reservoir will be empty by the end of this month,

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