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BANGKOK BANK, KUALA LUMPUR

glass and aluminium finish. Above it will be the mezzanine floor with office suites for senior officers of the bank.

The bank has also commissioned a mural in marble and bronze, 36 feet by 12 feet and depicting Thai motifs, for a wall in the main banking hall.

The office floors will have glass and aluminium partitions with figured de- corative plywood.

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Two lifts capable of taking 15 pas- sengers each at the rate of 600 feet a minute will be installed to serve the bullding. The airconditioning plant will be on the roof.

The penthouse will have a large lounge, dining 100m, two large bed- rooms with bathrooms attached, a bar, servants quarters and will be luxuriously furnished befitting the dignity of the bank's visiting

directors and clients.

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One "first" that the bank build- ing will be able to claim is a free- form pool with fountain which will be lit up with coloured lights at night. This will be on the roof garden.

Like the other bank buildings constructed since Malaya's indepen dence, the new bank building is yet another reflection of the great con- fidence foreign countries have in the economy of Malaya and is a symbol of the rapid development of the

country.

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ASSISTANT LAND SURVEYOR TO TRAIN IN U.K.

OR the first time in the history

of Hong

Hong Kong, a serving local Government officer is going abroad for training in

work.

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He is Mr. Ng Nai-hong, a 29- year-old Assistant Land Surveyor. Class II, in the Public Works De- partment. He left the Colony last month to take up a

one-year land survey course at the University of London.

Mr. Ng joined the Crown Lands and Survey Office of the Public Works Department in 1954 as an Assistant Land Surveyor Class II! for three years of basic training in survey work.

During that period, he attended the Hong Kong Technical College and obtained his Field Survey Cer tificate with Distinction He also obtained his University of London General Certificate of Education at that time.

In 1958, Mr. Ng passed the de- partmental Survey Examination and was regraded Class II Assistant Land Surveyor. Two years later. he passed the First Professional Ex- amination of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.

During his study leave in Eng- land, Mr. Ng plans to visit and work in such well-known organisations as the Ordnance Survey and the Dir- ectorate of Overseas Survey.

THE HONG KONG & FAR EAST BUILDER—VOLUME 17, NUMBER 3