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The postal Franker ́is an experi
Recurrent Public Works, Head 30, ment with a machine which obviates shows an increase of $78,900. Dur- the necessity for adhesive stamps.ng the last few years economy has to consider the matter comprehen-and can be utilised elsewhere than beon enforced to the lowest point sively. Meanwhile certain tempor-in the Post Office itself. It is consistent with efficiency. We are ary provisional additions have been thought that local business houses now, it is hoped, in a position to re- approved by the Secretary of State will be glad of the opportunity of turn to the high standard normally maintained by our Public Works and have been entered in the seeing how the experiment works.
Head 18, Harbour Department-Department and to make good mat- draft estimates. All these ad-
put to the Fin- this Head shows a very large reduc- tere which it was possible to leave ditiona
CTHER PUBLIC WORKS. ance Committee of the Legislative tion of $117,415 as against 1928. over for the time.
This sum is almost entirely account- Couricil before
Head 31-Public Works Extra- recommenda- tions were sent farther, and received for by the special expenditure ed their approval. The largest, ad-(which was necessary this year. The ordinary. No notes appear under dition of this kind is the grant of new launch to replace the Victorin this head but the details are ex- memorandum over the signature of allowances on a sliding scale to and two other new launches for thehaustively dealt with in the special compensate for the fall of the dollar department appear in the special ex- the Director of Public Works which Io below half-a-crown to Government penditure of this year and the ex-
has been already circulated. servants ordinarily recruited at pense does not of course recur,
attacking this difficult problem the POLICE ESTIMATES.
Government was as usual faced with home. The total which it is esti
Pro-n very wide choice. The whole of Supreme Court, Head 16, mated is involved is to be found on page 100 ander Head 34, s.h. 47 vision has been made for the restora- the Extraordinary worku suggested Miscellaneous Services-Exchange lion of the second poat of Deputy by all departments would have gone Compensation Allowances, $350,000. Registrar, Supreme Court, and it is quite near to eating up the total re- Further it has been deemed neces-intended to fill the post by attach-venue for the year. It was found sary to meet recruiting difficulties ing to the Registry one of the officers possible after dealing with depart- which were boing encountered by appointed under the title of Assist-mental needs to allocate approxim- raising the scale of aniaries for the ant Crown Solicitor. These officers ately 31⁄2 millions to this Head and earlier years of service: the differ are appointed on the understanding the selection made from the very ences on this account will be found that they are liable for service in large list submitted by the depart
any of the legal departments sments constitutes the estimate for under the separute heads.
The intitial anlaries of Cadets
the Government may from time to the coming-year, on pages 81 and This have been raised from £350 to 2375, time decide.
following under Head 31. of Police Probationers from £325 to
The Police Estimates show a de- larger total which it is hoped to pro- £350 and of Schoolmasters from
Crease as compared with 1928 of vide next year is a promising sign £100 to £425, with increments 50 $44,765. The fullest possible notes as compared with the totals for arranged that the salaries fit again have been appended to this Head so for 1927 was under $3,000,000 and The expenditure to the existing scale in the later that Honourable Members may be stages.
fully informed of all details. Exit is estimated that in 1928 it will THE "JUNIORS."
are a very great reduction on those When the publication of these pense is not upared to keep the Force reach $2,271,000 only. These totals
efficient, as it must be, but it is concessions was recently made, always a matter for congratulation ordinary in the days before the de- expended on Public Works Extra- much eriticism was aimed at the when a reduction in the expendi-pression of trade, and it may be a apparent neglect of the claims of
long time before we shall
without the
1927 and 1928.
reach
the rest of the Government servanta ture can be secured and a Pet tion by the Junior Cler-necessity of having to refuse any again times so prosperous as to en- cal Staff appeared in the local of the requisitions of the Captainable the Colony to return to that high standard of expenditure. It papers. The reply to that Petition Superintendent.
in felt however that matters are was also published and in this con- nection I would add that reference
CO-ORDINATION. Head 25, Medical Department.
sufficiently improved to justify the beginning of an attempt to make up leeway and assistance for the re- venue from available surplus bal- ances has been invoked.
to Appendix 2 page 104 will show Much consideration has been given that the new organisation of Junior recently to a scheme which will Clerical service is estimated to cost bring the Medical more closely into $726,021 in 1929 as against $621,- touch with the Sanitary Department,
In making a selection of the 867 in 1928. We thus get an expen-No reduction of the duties or the diture on this service increased by responsibility of the Sanitary De-works to be done the Government $104,154 of which $25,050 is due to partment or the Sanitary Board is necessarily gave first place to works necessary increase in numbers, contemplated, the object in view already in progress. They become $19,565 to stipulated increments being to co-ordinate these two de- unavoidable commitments and they and $42,250 to the creation of more partments more closely and to give are clearly indicated in the tabular higher grade posts no as to allow of the Sanitary Board the advantage statement appearing, in the Esti more rapid promotion.
of the experience of the Medical mates. Department.
I would observe that the $42,250 for higher grade posts is in addi- The alterntions in the titles in the
EXPENSIVE WORKS.
In this category is to be included tion to $17,000 applied to this pur- Medical Department are a first step the money recommended for the ex- pose during 1928, over and above in the direction indicated. "The tension of the Peak Wireless Sta- the establishment shown in the Principal Civil Medical Officer" be- tlon. The Council during the estimates for that year.
comes "The Director of Medical and course of the current year has al-
to
A scheme has been drawn up to Sanitary Services" and will be res-ready voted large sums for the de- provide for further proportionate ponsible for the technical side of velopment of radio, recognising increases in the higher ranks for the work of the Medical Officers of the essential nature of the develop- some years ahead. In this connce Health and for the advice that they ment and the importance of keeping tion I would also refer to the fact will give to the Sanitary Board. it in stop with the times. It was ex- that lodging allowances equivalent is hoped too that this arrangement plained, at the time that the money an increase of salary of from will make it possible to follow the which could be expended this year 10% to 15% were granted in 1924 principles on which the Colonial was asked for, that these further to members of this staff and that Office has recently laid so much sums would be consequently neces- the whole scheme of salaries is stress, and to pay more attention to sary in 1929, open to revision by the Revision methods of prevention, for which Commission.
the best technical advice available is necessary, and under this scheme
will be made available.
The second principle adopted in guiding Government's choice was to select a number of small works,
The Senior Clerical and Account- ing Staff also is connected with all
such as bath houses and latrines, departments of the Government ser
the equirements of the Sanitary NURSING STAFF. vice. An important alteration,
Department, which are easily over- During the year the Government looked in times of pressure but are which should make for elasticity and efficiency, has been made in this has made continued efforts to recruit in fact matters of first importance. section by group ng under it alla malariologist but so far without It will be noticed that the Sanitary It is hoped that the post Board and its requirements have Lady Stonographers, arranged in success.
wo classes. The higher will be may be filled in the near future.
been treated with considerable gen-} The Nursing Staff has been con-erosity in this respect. composed of Confidential Assistants
increased. It Wis and Stenographers on a salary of aiderably.
We were left then with a choice Nursing Sisters of a number of very large and ex- £300-£400 a year, and it is hoped found that the thus to attract to the higher claas were not infrequently without the pensive works. The Salyingpun candidates with English training amount of leisure always conceded market has been for some years on and qualifications who are well to others in less exacting profes-the list of urgencies and I think suited to fill the confidential posts slons. It is now possible to secure there will be none to gainsay its: for which it is desired to recruit for the Sisters 4 days clear off duty importance. It has at last been de- them.
in every month.
cided definitely to undertake the EXPANSION FORESHADOWED. Head 26, Sanitary Department, work and $200,000 out of a total It is probable that recent events shows a large increase of which the estimated cost of $400,000 has been in the Colony which have led to a major part is accounted for by the entered for expenditure next year.. carciul review of all our financial special expenditure necessary for If we wish to look beyond sanitary methods may result in a recommen- the better disposal of refuse. The necessity. for a justification of the dation for considerable expansion item for exhumation under this expenditure of this large sum, it i of the Senior Clerical and Account- Head is to the necessity for reopen-
can be found in the fact that it be ng.Staff to secure control in acing a long closed cemetery at Cheung comes a revenue producing invest- counting and finance. The
ment. The increase of the Police quiries necessitated however are The activities of the Educational Force has resulted in an ever grow- not yet complete and it has not Department have during the lasting pressure on the accommodation been possible to enter any sum in few years been widened very con- available, and the provision of new the 1929 estimates to meet this considerably
and improved stations is a matter and the increase of tingency. When the recommenda- $30,814 for 1929 is almost entirely considered that the beat beginuing that has grown in urgency. It is tions are clear cut the matter will due to increase in personal emolu- can be made by providing a large be put before the Finance Commit- ments. An extended staff is re-modern Police Station on the Praya tee of the Council for their con-quired to keep pace with our deve East where a sufficiently roomy site sideration, with a request for sup-lopments and as I have already ex can be made readily available, for plementary supply as may be neces-plained the initial salaries have had accommodation which it is hoped We pass now to the details under to be revised to attract recruits of will do for many years to come. $150.000 of a total estimate of $300,- the separate Heads of the Bati- the desired standard.
000 is accordingly entered on page 81, item, 8..
sary.
en- Sha Wan
EDUCATION.
which
mates.
The Departmental Esti
Item 29 under Head 28 shows a mates are fully annotated in the abstract of differences, but there large reduction. Comparatively lit-
DEVELOPMENTS.. are a number of matters to which the authorised building
$70,000 item 44, page 82, has been attention, should be particularly might become a charge on the build- directed..
Ing grants vote is in view and it allocated to the transfer of Public Works Department Workshops to INCREASES & TRANSFERS. will be necessary, to make it clear
Wood-road. The present Public Honourable Members will notice that grants during the year will not Works Department Workshops are under the Cadet Service vote, Head be considered unless full, authority all more or less of a temporary and 2, an item of special interest to my-has been given in advance.
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self. Sir. Cecil Clementi recom- In connection with Education I provisional nature. With the.com- mended to the Secretary of State an would refer Honourable Members pletion of the reclamation it will increase in the salary of the post of also to the vote on pare 100, Hende necessary in any event for these Secretary for Chinese Affairs and 34, Item 25 of; Miscellaneous Ser- the Secretary of State directed that vices, an increased subsidy to the the Council should be invited to ap University. This increase is to prove of a fixed salary of £1,500 por cover a grant to the School of Chin- annum for the post of Becretary for ese which it da hoped to establish, Chinese Affairs and of a personal and is intended to be an annual allowance of £900 for myself. grant for the fow yours that may
Under Head 11. Post Office, It will be required before the School SNAPPY
is
be noticed that transfers have been can be expected to become financially made to the department from the independent. The Increase Senior Clerical and Accounting $82,200, and the vote has been an- [Staff. This has been done because tered after a discussion of the point | it'ls considered that the work of the with the Finance Committee, I Post Office is so highly specialised Public Works Department, Head that the prospect of transfer of bit: 29, calls for no additional comment cers to and from other depart, under the Heads of Fersonal» Emo. ments is small, and they will as far tuments and Other Charger. The as possible be exmeeteil in look for fullest explanations are given in the promotion in the Post Office.
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