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supernumerary posts of clerk/typist. Two Assistant Telecommunications Technicians Class II and one Storekeeper are necessary to undertake the additional maintenance and stores work resulting from the re- organization of Police Communications. One Kitchen Supervisor, eight Cooks Class I and six Cooks Class II are required in order to allow the mess at P.T.S. to be run by Government staff and to provide four Cooks Class I for Marine launches. Five Launch Engineers Class III are necessary to cope with the main- tenance work resulting from the approved expansion of the Marine Division. One Painter Class I is required in the C. & T. Branch to replace a Constable drawing technician allowance. One Lithographer Class II is required to replace a trained Police Officer employed on maintenance of a printing machine. Twelve Clerical Assistants, twelve Messengers and twenty three Coolies are required for normal expansion, relieving G.C.S. Clerks for more important duties; against these increases there is a reduction of twelve supernumerary posts of Messenger. One supernumerary post of Senior Superintendent and one of Secretary Stenographer were approved by Special Warrant for the Immigration Office.
Under Other Charges Annually Recurrent, the net increase of $963,600 is mainly due to provision for Driving Test Examiners and increased provisions for Arms and Ammunition, Stores & Equip- ment, Fuel Light and Power, Uniforms and accoutrements and Traffic Lights and Aids.
Some fifty percent of the provision for Special Expenditure is accounted for by revotes. Additional funds have been included to provide for intercommunication systems at Bay View Police Station and P.H.Q. Kowloon. The filing equipment is required to improve the storage of vital Fingerprint Forms in the Identification Bureau. A token vote of $1,000 has been provided in Subhead 25 for resiting the Kai Tak weighbridge, which is required to enable the Traffic Branch to check the present tendency to overload commercial vehicles. Provision included for Arms and ammunition is to enable the Police armoury to be brought up to an approved scale.
HEAD 54 — POLICE FORCE: AUXILIARY POLICE
Estimate 1960/61
$1,483,300
Revised estimate 1959/60
1,433,000
Approved estimate 1959/60
1,411,700
Actual expenditure 1958/59
1,369,237
Permanent staff
1959/60
3
1960/61
3
Difference
HEAD 55 - POST OFFICE
Estimate 1960/61
$27,228,900
Revised estimate 1959/60
22,022,000
Approved estimate 1959/60
21,101,000
Actual expenditure 1958/59
20,172,258
Permanent staff
Temporary staff
1959/60
971
1960/61
1,007
Difference
+ 36
262
+ 262
298
Net increase
New posts
1 Assistant Controller of Posts
2 District Postmasters
Existing posts deleted
50 Temporary Postal Clerks
1 Postman Class II
7 Postal Clerks Class I
19 Postal Clerks Class II
38 Postal Clerks Class III (3*)
3 Head Postmen
13 Postmen Class I
2 Postmen Class II*
2 Mail Coolies