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WORLD-WIDE SERVICE

Pilkingtons' service is world-wide and is provided by their Agents based in all major cities. The help of your local Agent whose address is shown below) is always available in any problem concerning the use of glass in building. Any time you wish to discuss an application, just telephone or write to your local Pilkington Agent. Pilkingtons' glass is readily available from glass merchants everywhere.

PILKINGTONS' AGENTS

Hong Kong

Shewan Tomes (Equipment) Ltd Union House, 14th Floor, Hong Kong Cables: Feenix, Hong Kong Telephone: 221111

Korea

Eisenberg & Co. Inc

Bando Building, Room 238

PO Box Kwanghwamun 237, Seoul Cables: Eisenberg

Telephone: Seoul 24024 and 24476

Malaysia

Guthrie & Company (Far East) Ltd. PO Box 198 Kuala Lumpur PO Box 900 Singapore

Philippines

Smith, Bell & Co. (Philippines) Inc

PO Box 311, 215 Juan Luna Street, Manila Cables: Bell

Telephone: Manila 48751

Thailand

Loxley (Bangkok) Ltd

GPO Box 214, 304 Suapah Road, Bangkok Telephone: Bangkok 32689, 35057 and 34031

RE-SITING RAILWAY FACILITIES

RAILWAY Workshops and facilities of the existing K.C.R. depot in Chatham Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong will be reconstructed shortly on the Hung Hom reclamation where a new railway terminus will be built eventually.

The existing Chatham Road depot will soon have to be demolished to make room for the construction of ap- proach roads to the proposed harbour tunnel and for future alignment of the railway. Most of the workshops will be rebuilt on the land being reclaimed from the sea at Ho Tung Lau in Sha Tin.

The structures to be resited on the Hung Hom re- clamation will be a running shed for day-to-day main- tenance of locomotives, a 100 ft. turntable for reversing the direction of rolling stock, a temporary carriage wash- ing shed, a dangerous goods store, and a temporary office building.

Upon completion, the running shed and turntable will be temporarily connected to the Tsim Sha Tsui station by a railway track but this will be severed when the new railway terminus at Hung Hom is eventually built. Work on the construction of the structures is expected to start in October and should be completed in November next year.

BUILDING BOOM IN MACAU

A BOOM in urban construction is reported by the Govern- ment Information Department of Macau. In the first six months of this year a total of 53 buildings, valued at HK$8,526,709 was built.

These buildings consisted of 606 apartments, 75 shops. one office, one garage, three warehouses, one fac- tory, one school and one orphanage.

Work is to be speeded up one of the Colony's larg- est public works projects, the linking of Taipa and Colo- wan islands by a causeway. The work so far carried out over the last two years has been done by the Social Re- habilitation Centre in Taipa. Now the scheme is to be completed by a private contractor.

Tenders have been invited from ten firms and the Government has been recommended to accept the lowest bid of HK$2.5 million, submitted by Chiu Sinkwok.

HOUSING ARCHITECT IN FIJI

THE chief architect of the Singapore Housing and Deve- lopment Board. Mr. Teh Cheang Wan, is now on a visit to Fiji to advise on low-cost housing.

Mr. Teh has been chief architect of the board since 1960 and its main architect for two five-year plans aimed at solving Singapore's housing programme. He will spend five weeks in Fiji as a guest of the Government.

PILKINGTON

BROTHERS LIMITED

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ST. HELENS LANCASHIRE ENGLAND

INVENTORS OF FLOAT GLASS

The Luisita Sugar Refinery at Tarlac, Philippines, was completed recently at a cost of P15 million. It was designed by Stork- Werkspoor, Holland, in association with the planning staff of Central Azucarera de Tarlac, Jose Cojuangco and Sons, and the engineering staff of Atlantic Gulf and Pacific Co., Manila.

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