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P.W.D. ENGINEER RETIRES minor works for Native Authorities, and

Reginald Arthur Mirams, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., Assoc. M. Inst. W.E., who retired from the Public Works Department in May, has had a long association with the Colony.

of King George V docks, and then sub- agent with Messrs. Shanks & McEwan Ltd.. the contractors of this work, in charge of construction of mass concrete walls.

also acted as Provincial Engineer on two occasions.

After the outbreak of war he surveyed and commenced the construction of 2. strategic road through bush country be- fore being detailed to locate sites for and His next job was as assistant sub-agent construct two successive emergency acro- with Messrs. Sir John Jackson Ltd. on drones in undeveloped territory. Both the construction of a barrage across the had top priority completion dates but no Nile at Nag Hamadi, Upper Egypt, in other staff could be spared to assist, and charge of sheet piling cofferdam, mass he constructed them entirely on his own concrete to raft and construction of the and completed both ahead of schedule. limestone piers with supervision of lime- He was then deputed (with a geologist) to stone quarries and river fleet.

He first came to Hong Kong as engineer to H.K. Excavation Pile Driving & Const. Ltd. then the largest construction Co. company in the Colony, who were build- ing, at that time, the Aberdeen Dam and the Kowloon Byewash Dam. two mass- concrete dams with catchwaters and ап

underground reservoir, and Wilmer Street

Pier.

From Hong Kong he went to Shanghai as engineer with the Shanghai Municipal Council.

investigate the possibility of making site had been found, designed and cement in Nigeria, and after a suitable

structed

con.

first cement ever made there.

a tower-kiln and produced the

His re-association with Hong Kong be- gan again in 1945, when he was trans- Public Works Department, and where he ferred to the Colony as an engineer in the

remained until his retirement. On his ar rival here shortly after the Japanese sur- rendered, he was seconded to the British Military Administration. He assisted first in getting the water supply to function and then was put in charge of emergency repairs to piers, quay walls and the aero- drome.

From October 1936 to August 1945. he was engineer in the Public Works De- He was born in London on the 18th partment of the Government of Nigeria. January, 1902 and educated at Bishops During this period he designed water Stortford College, Herts, and at Emmanuel supply systeros for one large town (earth Since the Civil Administration took over College. Cambridge. After being appren- dam and gravity feed) and three small in May 1946, he successively held the posts ticed for three years with Messrs. Glen towns (pumped supply from rivers to of Acting Chief Engineer (Port Works) fiekl & Kennedy Ltd., Kilmarnock water towers) including all reconnaissance 1946/47, Engineer (Road Works) 1947/52. (Hydraulic Engineers) and with the Clyde and survey work. He was made District Acting Chief Engineer (Drainage) 1952/- Navigation Trust, Glasgow, he became Engineer in a number of Districts where 53. Acting Chief Engineer (Roads) 1953/- assistant to the Resident Engineer for the work was mainly the maintenance and 54, and Chief Engineer (Roads & Drain- Clyde Navigation Trust on construction construction of roads and bridges and age) 1954/56.

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