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social and economic welfare of Hong Kong. Luncheon addresses during the year had included one by Mr. Derek Davies on The Political Future of Hong Kong, and an- other by Mrs. Susan Yuen on The Economic Future of Hong Kong Industries.

Mr. Kinoshita announced that in conjunction with the Town Planning Institute the society would hold an ex- hibition at the City Hall from January 18 to 21. Theme of the exhibition would be "The Environment in Hong Kong". Under the heading 'Professional Practice', the secret- ary's report states:

"The new Standard Form of Contract for use in Hong Kong, with or without quantities, has been finalised by the Joint Co-ordinating Committee comprised of the Hong Kong Society of Architects, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Hong Kong & China Branch) and The Society of Builders, Hong Kong. The cost of these documents has been established as follows:-

"Form of contract with quantities HK$5; form of contract without quantities $5; form of contract for nominated sub-contractors $2: form of contract for nominated suppliers $1. These documents will be avail- able from the Society, P.O. Box 2192, early in 1968.

"The Revised Fire Resisting Construction Rules pre- pared by the Fire Insurance Association will be sent to all members early in 1968. One of the requirements necessary for the approval of an application for an F.R.C. discount for fire insurance is a certificate from the architect confirming that the building conforms with the F.R.C. rules. This pamphlet is distributed in order to help architects while they are designing the building to conform to these rules if the client wishes to take advantage of this discount."

EXTENSION TO AIR TERMINAL

MORE space will be made available to airline offices at Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport to cope with their expan- sion, when construction of an extension to the existing office block is completed towards the end of this year.

The extension, four storeys high, will be built over the roof of the east transit lounge of the air terminal building. This will provide a gross area of about 16,600 sq. ft., which will be available to airline offices and will also accommodate the air traffic control. training and airport administration units.

As a result, more space will be provided on the de- parture floor at first floor level for passengers and their friends. Two additional passenger lifts will be installed to serve the new accommodation. Construction work is expected to start in February and will take about nine months to complete.

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Model of the proposed polyclinic and social welfare centre to be erected at the junction of New Road and On Tak Road, Fook Wah Village, Ngau Tau Kok, Kowloon. This six-storey prestress- ed concrete structure is designed by Hsin Yieh Architects and Associates. Mr. Andrew Jean is the prestressing engineer

Far East Architect & Builder January, 1968

NEW COUNCIL FOR HKSA

Mr. Alfred V. ALVARES has been elected pre- sident of the Hong Kong Society of Architects for 1968. A Portuguese, Mr. Alvares was born in Macau in 1910. He became an Authorized Archi- tect in Hong Kong in 1938 and was architect of Credit Foncier d'Extreme Orient until 1949, when he set up his own practice as Al- fred V. Alvares and Associates.

He has been respon- sible for the design of many well known buildings in Hong Kong, among them the Canossa Hospital; the new extension to St. Teresa's Hospital; the, Tregunter Mansion, Re-

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pulse Bay Mansions (A and B) and The Rozlyn apartment buildings; A.S. Watson's bottling plant; and the Melwani and Murjani residences. He also planned the Estoril hotel and casino and the muni- cipal swimming stadium in Macau.

Mr. Alvares was admitted into the Honorary Fellowship of the American Institute of Architects in May, 1967.

Other members of the HKSA Council for 1968 are: Mr. I. Campbell, vice president; Mr. Andrew Lee King Fun, hon. secretary; Mr. Raymond Kan, hon, treasurer; Mr. David Wong, Mr. William Su, Mr. Leslie Ouyang, Mr. Samn Lim, Mr. B.C. Peder- sen, and Mr. Francisco Baptista.

BUILDING PLANS APPROVED

THE Building Authority in November approved a total of 20 new building plans of all types in Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories. In the same period, 44 newly- completed buildings were certified for occupation as com- pared with 61 in the preceding month.

Of the new buildings, three were for domestic pur- poses, 15 for non-domestic purposes, and 26 for combined domestic and non-domestic use. In addition, the Building Authority approved the demolition of three buildings.

Cost of new building work in the Colony in the month of October amounted to HK$45,744,722, while a total of HK$1,774.377 was spent on site formation work.

In the same period there were 87 new buildings of all types erected. This total includes seven factories and godowns, five offices and shops, 67 houses and flats and eight other buildings of mixed accommodation.

SCHOOLS DEVELOPMENT ESTIMATES

MORE than half of the S$6 million allocated in next year's development estimates for Singapore's school buildings and extensions will be for secondary schools. Over S$2.2 mil- lion will be spent on new secondary schools and another S$1.1 million on major extensions to existing secondary schools. Another S$1 million will be spent on furniture and equipment for new schools.

Capital grants to Government-aided schools amount to $500,000.

Over $4.2 million is allocated for land acquisition for vocational institutes, works and buildings of the institutes and furniture and equipment for them.

Works and buildings of the new Jurong Vocational Institute of Engineering will amount to nearly $1.4 mil- lion, with another $20,000 for furniture and equipment.

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