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Administration Division
A further post of Assistant Trade Officer will provide a leave reserve for the Trade Officer grade.
A post of Assistant Statistician is provided for the Industrial Production Statistics section which it is intended to form during the year. Initially the officer filling this post will work in the Industrial Development Branch. Another post of Assistant Statistician (non-pensionable) was approved by special warrant in the latter part of 1958. For the first twelve months, the holder is seconded to the Housing Division, Urban Services Department to evaluate statistics on housing. It is hoped that the installation of mechanical tabulating equipment will permit a reduction of 12 clerical posts.
A Confidential Assistant post has been transferred from Control to Administration Division. She will be stenographer to the three Executive Grade officers of the division.
A post of Office/Workshop Assistant is required in the General Office primarily to take charge of and to operate the duplicating machine used by all the departments in the Fire Brigade Building.
Development Division
Three posts of Senior Trade Officer (a new promotion class in the Trade Officer grade) are provided for the Development Division. One will be in charge of the Overseas Trade Relations and Economic Intelligence Branch, which it is proposed to expand. He will in due course replace the Cadet Officer, at present the sole officer in the Branch, and will be supported by two Assistant Trade Officers. The second Senior Trade Officer will take charge of the Export Promotion Branch which takes care of trade fairs, over- seas publicity generally, and trade enquiries and complaints. An additional Assistant Trade Officer is also provided for this branch.
The augmented senior staff of the two branches will make it easier to send official delegates to E.C.A.F.E. and other trade conferences, and to conduct limited market research overseas.
The Industrial Development Branch is to be revived as a separate entity after having been merged during the last two years with the Certification Branch. An additional post of Trade Officer is provided to take charge.
Two additional posts of Clerk are provided to aid the Assistant Statistician seconded to the Industrial Development Branch for the compilation of industrial production statistics; another Clerk is provided for the Overseas Trade Relations and Economic Research Branch; three additional posts of Confidential Assistant are required for the Development Division.
Control Division
A Senior Trade Officer is provided to be in charge of the interdependent Certificating and Industrial Development Branches. Two posts of Executive Officer in the Trade Licensing Office have been retrenched. There is an overall increase of five posts of Clerk: four in the Trade Licensing Branch and one in the Certification Branch.
During the past year an additional Executive Grade Officer in the Certification Branch was replaced by a Confidential Assistant. Two new posts of Confidential Assistant are provided for the Trade Licensing Branch for work connected with the control of exports of cotton piecegoods to the United Kingdom. One post of Storage Assistant Class II is retrenched. Closure of two firewood yards has enabled six posts of watchmen also to be retrenched.
Three new posts of Office/Workshop Assistant are required, one replacing an Office Attendant in the Dutiable Commodities Branch.
Eleven new posts are necessary to strengthen the Industry Inspection Section, and to provide a further post for Kai Tak Airport when night flying commences.
Anti-narcotic measures have necessitated seven additional Senior Revenue Officers, fifteen Revenue Officers and one hundred and four Assistant Revenue Officers. A further five Assistant Revenue Officers are required for night duties at the Airport and for guard duty at Fan Ling Revenue Station.
Overseas Offices
London
Increased financial provision is required to implement a further stage in bringing salaries for women into line with those for male officers.
Tokyo
Sydney
No change.
A new overseas office of the Hong Kong Government is to be established in Sydney and provi- sion has been made on the basis of estimated costs for nine months. No firm estimate is possible in the absence of information as to costs in Australia. It is proposed that the office be started by a Senior Trade Officer on agreement.
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