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Mr. T. A. L. CONCANNON, Commissioner of Town and Country

Planning, Federation of Malaya.

Mr. Sri KRISHNA, of the National Buildings Organization, Govern-

ment of India.

Mr. NG Chee-sen, Senior Architect, Housing and Development

Board, Singapore.

From Europe:

Mr. G. A. ATKINSON, Tropical Section of the Building Research

Station, Garston, England.

Mr. J. GARNETT-JONES, West Indian Government's High Commis-

sioner in London.

Mr. J. BURGH, in charge of Hong Kong affairs in the Colonial

Office, London.

Mr. Ole DYBBROE, of the Danish National Institute of Building

Research, Copenhagen.

Mr. P. BOXALL, of the Hong Kong Government's London office. Mr. P. WHITELEY, of the Department of Scientific and Industrial

Research, London.

Mr. Ormonde GODFREY, of the Central Office of Information,

London.

Mr. Colin TURNER, D.F.C., Conservative M.P. for West Woolwich,

England.

74. Several organized parties were also conducted around the estates. They included British Army officers from the local garrison, and students from the Department of Architecture and the Social Study Course of the University of Hong Kong, and from the Hong Kong Technical College.

CHAPTER III

BUILDINGS

GENERAL BACKGROUND

75. When the Authority was created in April 1954, the Housing Division of the Urban Services Department functioned with a skeleton staff only. The general pattern of the organization took the form of three sections—Administration, Accounts and Estate Management, for which senior officers were designated and recruited.

76. By the end of August 1954, two sites had been allocated, one of about 6 acres on re-claimed land at Java Road, North Point, the other

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