NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE
Letter from Mr. M. A. Huberman, Chief of the Forestry & Forest Products, Working Group for Asia & the Pacific, to Mr. I. P. Tamworth, Hong Kong's Forestry Officer.
Dear Tamworth:
You will be interested in the following extract from a letter which has just been received from Director of Forestry Florencio Tamesis at Manila:
"Presently, I have about 12 graders and in view of our requirement that no lumber or logs could get out of the country without the certificate of inspection of the Bureau 01 Forestry lumber graders, it has become necessary for me to train another group of graders this coming July. I am picking up from my own staff a number of rangers and foresters who are experienced in scaling and in lumbering operations with a view to training them as additional graders. Our export has in- creased considerably since last year and the demand for trained men has oeen heavy. For this reason, I am opening a school for graders which will also be open to any man that the number operators may wish to have enrolled. The course takes about two and a half months, starting July 16th.
Along this line, the Indian Government has sent an inquiry whether they can send their forestry men to take up the training course on grading of Philippine Mahogany. 1 advised them that we are to hold a training course this year. Should any of the countries in Southeast Asia desire to take advantage of this training, I will be glad to enroll any or all of them. The enrollment will be free, but the travelling expenses necessary and the maintenance of the students will be about six hundred pesos (P600.00) each for the course. My plan is to have the students assigned to actual work in the different sawmills after having been trained on the fundamentals so that while they are actually training in the mills with the lumber and logs they grade actually shipped out of the country, the students will, in this way, have the full grasp of which they are expected to do when they get out and certiñed as lumber inspectors."
If you are interested in taking advantage of this offer by Mr. Tamesis, I suggest you get in touch with him immediately, because the time is short.
You will remember that in the recommendations of the Dalat Meeting there was included the suggestion to hold a grading training session. This recommendation of course, will be considered at the first meeting of the Forestry and Forest Products Commission for Asia & the Pacific, to be held in Bangkok, October 16-25, 1950. A decision should be taken at that time regarding the choice of location for such training. The forth-coming training course in July at Manila should provide valuable experience in the planning of the more general training course recommended at Dalat.
I shall appreciate receiving a copy of your reply to this offer of Mr. Tamesis.
Sincerely yours,
M. A. Huberman,
Mr. Tamworth's reply addressed to Mr. F. Tamesis, B.S.F., M.S.F., Director of Forestry, Manila.
Dear Sir,
I refer to your offer made to the Forestry & Forest Products Working Group for Asia & the Pacific concerning the course for training graders in timber.
I am sure you will appreciate that Hong Kong not being an exporter of timber would have little need for the services of a timber grader. However as the largest importer of timber in the Far East we welcome any move directed towards grading of timber for export and, I think, buyers here are fully alive to the benefits arising from the standardization of Grading Rules, in which the training of graders to ensure the maximum uniformity in grading is an essential part.
Increasing quantities of Philippine timber have been arriving in Hong Kong in 1949. Although this timber has not, as far as I know, been graded, it is making a very good name for itself on the Hong Kong market. The grading of this timber would, I think, still further increase its popularity here.
I have the honour to be,
Dear Sir,
Your obedient servant,
I. P. Tamworth
R.
Letter received from Mr. Seow of Kuala Lumpur-We are particularly interested in his suggestion (2) that the size of the BUILDER could be reduced. We wonder if many of our readers feel the same way.
Dear Sir.
1
I have just received my first copy of the Hong Kong & Far East Builder which I read with great interest. feel that we need a good architectural and building magazine in the Far East both for the profession as well as the public. That will tend to encourage good architec- tural practice and appreciation and I wish you great success on the project.
Here are a few suggestions:-
(1) Why not call it "Far East Builder", it having a more
universal appeal throughout the Far East.
(2) Could not the format be improved-say a 12" X 10" simplified modern cover (e.g. the Architectural Forum) for sales appeal and easy handling.
(3) Make it more easily available to the general public. (4) A monthly magazine?
With very good wishes,
Yours faithfully,
E. J. SEOW (B. Arch., A.R.I.B.A.)
In the following letter, Mr. Margrett calls our attention to an omission made in our brief biogra- phical notes on Mr. Andrew Nicol in our last issue. We thank Mr. Margrett for drawing our attention to this.
Dear Sir,
It was with great interest that I read in your March, April issue the notices concerning three senior members of the P.W.D. who have recently retired.
They were all old and valued personal friends of mine and the details given of their respective careers in Hong Kong are, I believe, correct.
I feel however that justice has hardly been done in the case of Andrew Nicol for no mention is made of the fact that at the date of his retirement he held the sub- stantive rank of Deputy Director of Public Works, while he had on occasion acted as Director.
As is hinted in your notice, one of the charming characteristics of Andrew Nicol is his modesty but on that account I hope you will agree that others should give full recognition to his considerable achievements.
Yours faithfully,
H. C. MARGRETT.
Our attention has been drawn to an error in our write-up on the Draughtsmen's Proficiency Examinations held by the Institute of Architects of Malaya. The drawings illustrating this article were those given to the students from which to prepare eighth scale contract working drawings, and not of drawings submitted by the students as mentioned in our captions.
CORNEY
Telegraphic Address
& CO.,
(ESTABLISHED IN 1903)
127 Des Voeux Road Central
HONG KONG
LTD.
CORNEY Hongkong
Telephone 22037
Large stocks held of all types of Pilkington Bros, and Chance Bros, glass, Insulight and Insulux glass blocks and heatproof, fireproof and safety glass.
We are specialists in manufacturing to order mirrors of the finest workmanship.
-
65
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.