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stitute will be the M$5.4 million Teachers Training College, which will provide a 6-storey accommoda- tion and lecture. room building, sporting ovals and a sports pavilion, a large assembly hall, eight senior lecturers' quarters, car parks and a small mosque for students.

The college is designed to accom- modate 300 student teachers and is expected to open in January 1962.

The Federation's new Military College, which will shortly be ready at a 200 acre site a few miles south of Kuala Lumpur, required the excavation of over one million cubic yards of earth to form the platform for the buildings and provide for roads and games fields, which alone cover over 20 acres.

More than 1 miles of surface water drains and 3 miles of roads are needed to serve over 300 boys and 80 Officer Cadets.

The whole of this Military College area is part of the Sungei Besi Can- tonment which will provide accom- modation for the Federation Military College, 1st Infantry Battalion of the Royal Malay Regiment and the Brigade Headquarters, complete with shops, community centres, sports fields and quarters.

The Cantonment is estimated to cost M$17 million, all of which comes from grant-in-aid funds pro- vided by the British Government.

These are some of the major pro- jects that are being undertaken, plus a Garden of Remembrance to

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Perspective of interior of proposed House of Representatives

those who fell in the Emergency in 1948-1960.

The new dual-carriage highways sweeping through the city linking with the existing road system in- volves the widening to double car- riage width of many of Kuala Lum- pur's roads.

All play their part in turning this once tranquil city into the busv reality of one of the world's capital cities.

Sketch of the new Museum

THE HONG KONG & FAR EAST BUILDER

VOLUME 15. NUMBER 4

HONG KONG SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS: At its postponed annual general meeting on 29 November 1960 officers elected for 1961 were: President. Professor W.R. Gregory; vice-president. Mr. G.C.Dovey; hon, treasurer. Mr. Lam Ching Wah; hon. secretary, Mr. B. C. Penman; ordinary members of council, Messrs. A.H. Basto, Edward W.K. Lee, D.W. McDonald. Leslie C. Ouyang and J.A. Prescott.

The retiring president, Mr. W. Szeto, said that though the Society's history was very short compared with that of professional bodies elsewhere, he felt considerable pro- gress had been made. and the Society was stepping forth from its childhood and blossoming into healthy youth.

The past year had been eventful and crowded with significant an successful activities, and he was grateful to all members of the Society for their support and co- operation.

He expressed his deep apprecia- tion of the spirit and great enthusiasm in pursuing the Society's

affairs during the year.

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