194
With the expansion of the Probation Service five additional posts of Probation Officer and one of Principal Supervisor have been provided. Additional posts of one Principal Supervisor, one Supervisor and three Trade Instructors are provided for the new Children's Centre to be erected in Kowloon next financial year. Two additional posts of Youth Welfare Officer are required to cope with routine administrative work in organizing club activities. One further post of Community Welfare Officer and an additional assistant have been provided to maintain close liaison with the increasing number of Clan and District Welfare Associations. To cope with the volume of work devolving on the Child Welfare Section, another Children's Officer and six Assistants are to be appointed. The staff of the Women's and Girls' Section has also been increased. These general increases in the activities of the Department necessitate a corresponding clerical increase. All the staff changes, together with normal increments, account for the increase of $258,640 in the vote for personal emoluments.
Under Other Charges Annually Recurrent an increase of $300,000 is necessary for the vote for Relief and Public Assistance, to meet expenditure in respect of former disabled inmates of the Welfare Centre for the Physically-Handicapped transferred from their camp at Shap Long as a result of its conversion to a prison, to the older camps at North Point and Morrison Hill: additional funds under this sub-head are also required to meet distribution costs arising from gift food donations from charitable organizations abroad.
An additional van and saloon car and the replacement of one van that has reached the end of its economic life by a second Saloon car to cope with the expanding activities of the department necessitates the provision of $28,000 for Motor Transport under Special Expenditure; $25,000 has been provided for furniture and equipment for the new Children's Centre.
HEAD 38C DISTRICT WATCH FORCE
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Estimate 1957/58
Revised estimate 1956/57
Approved estimate 1956/57
Actual expenditure 1955/56
Permanent staff
$317,120
304,000
313,480
306,452
1956/57
70
1957/58
70
Difference
There are no staff changes under this Head and normal increments account for the slight increase in the Personal Emoluments vote.
Provision has been made to allow for the replacement of old uniforms: otherwise the Other Charges votes remain unchanged.
HEAD 39 - - STORES DEPARTMENT
Estimate 1957/58
$8,454,710
Revised estimate 1956/57
8,931,000
Approved estimate 1956/57 Actual expenditure 1955/56
9,231,000
9,095,193
Permanent staff
1956/57
548
1957/58
626
Difference
+ 78
Net increase
78
New posts
1 Assistant Controller of Stores
1 Clerk
3 Storekeepers
3 Office Assistants (1*)
2 Watchmen
1 Chargehand
Existing posts deleted
1 Executive Grade Officer 1 Artisan II
2 Semi-skilled staff
63 Coolies
4 Apprentices A
80
2
* Approved by Special Warrant during the year.