Visitors
4.59. The Division was honoured by a visit from the President of the Town Planning Institute, Professor Colin D. BUCHANAN, better known for his report on 'Traffic in Towns', which has received world-wide publicity. During the President's visit the Division collaborated with the local Branch of the Town Planning Institute in staging a planning exhibition and a meeting of the Branch at which a number of senior Government officials and leading citizens were present; a paper on Town Planning in Hong Kong was presented by a member of the Division.
4.60. Other visitors to the Division included Mr. K. F. SHIM, Manager, Borneo Development Corporation; Mr. I. F. TANG, ECAFE, Bangkok; Mr. A. B. WILSON, a Member of the Tasmanian Trade Commission; Dr. R. S. MILLARD of the Road Research Laboratory and Mr. J. D. C. CHURCHILL of the London Transport Executive; Prof. CHA Ill-Suck, Lecturer at Yonsei University, Korea; Mr. Sudarto TIRTOSUDARMO, United Nations Fellow in ECAFE In-service Training Programme and Mr. Baruch BOXER, Assistant Professor in Indiana University on a Foreign Field Research Programme.
DEVELOPMENT OFFICE
Chief Engineer:
Mr. F. R. WHITEHEAD, B.Sc. (Hons.), A.M.I.C.E.
GENERAL
5.01. The activities of the office, following the trend of previous years, continued to expand. With the appointment in January of a Senior Engineer with specialized railway experience the task of planning and constructing a new terminus at Hung Hom for the Kowloon-Canton Railway was undertaken.
PLANNING AND INVESTIGATION
5.02. Feasibility reports on Lung Cheung Road Development Area No. 1 and Kowloon Bay were prepared. The former report covered the formation of some 140 acres of barren, eroded land along the Kowloon foothills into sites for housing, institutional and community use, whilst the latter covered the reclamation of about 427 acres of seabed between the airport runway and the eastern shore of Kowloon Bay mostly for industrial and open storage purposes. Proposals were
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Visitors
4.59. The Division was honoured by a visit from the President of the Town Planning Institute, Professor Colin D. BUCHANAN, better known for his report on 'Traffic in Towns', which has received world- wide publicity. During the President's visit the Division collaborated with the local Branch of the Town Planning Institute in staging a plan- ning exhibition and a meeting of the Branch at which a number of senior Government officials and leading citizens were present; a paper on Town Planning in Hong Kong was presented by a member of the Division.
4.60. Other visitors to the Division included Mr. K. F. SHIM, Manager, Borneo Development Corporation; Mr. I. F. TANG, ECAFE, Bangkok; Mr. A. B. WILSON, a Member of the Tasmanian Trade Commission; Dr. R. S. MILLARD of the Road Research Laboratory and Mr. J. D. C. CHURCHILL of the London Transport Executive; Prof. CHA Ill-Suck, Lecturer at Yonsei University, Korea; Mr. Sudarto TIRTOSUDARMO, United Nations Fellow in ECAFE In-service Training Programme and Mr. Baruch BOXER, Assistant Professor in Indiana University on a Foreign Field Research Programme.
DEVELOPMENT OFFICE
Chief Engineer:
Mr. F. R. WHITEHEAD, B.Sc. (Hons.), A.M.I.C.E.
GENERAL
5.01. The activities of the office, following the trend of previous years, continued to expand. With the appointment in January of a Senior Engineer with specialized railway experience the task of plan- ning and constructing a new terminus at Hung Hom for the Kowloon- Canton Railway was undertaken.
PLANNING AND INVESTIGATION
5.02. Feasibility reports on Lung Cheung Road Development Area No. 1 and Kowloon Bay were prepared. The former report covered the formation of some 140 acres of barren, eroded land along the Kowloon foothills into sites for housing, institutional and community use, whilst the latter covered the reclamation of about 427 acres of seabed between the airport runway and the eastern shore of Kowloon Bay mostly for industrial and open storage purposes. Proposals were
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