Miscellaneous
3.17.
Staff
(1) 1,215 drain tests were carried out in various districts.
(2) 194 Building Contractors were registered. This represents an increase approaching 50% on the figure of registration for last year.
3.18. Recruitment in the professional and assistant-professional grades has continued to prove difficult and a staff deficiency of approximately 30% has been carried over from last year. A total of 5 new Building Surveyors and one new Assistant Building Surveyor were appointed during the year, but this additional staff has been consumed by the expansion of the Dangerous Buildings Section and 3 resignations.
3.19. The staff have generally succeeded in their efforts to reduce delays to a minimum but certain work was necessarily not receiving the full attention it deserved.
CROWN LANDS AND SURVEY OFFICE
Superintendent of Crown Lands & Survey:
R. H. HUGHES, M.A., F.R.I.C.S.
GENERAL
Staff
4.01. The total authorized establishment amounted to 546, an increase of 86 over the previous year. The increase represented 1 Assistant Superintendent, 1 Senior Land Surveyor, 4 Assistant Land and Estate Surveyors, staff for the Regional Planning team, 20 officers transferred from the N.T. Cadastral Survey to the permanent establishment and technical men and survey labourers for the Survey Division. The New Territories Cadastral Survey Establishment is now 146.
4.02. Senior recruitment included 2 Estate Surveyors, 1 Planning Officer and 1 Assistant Planning Officer but a vacancy for 1 Estate Surveyor remained unfilled.
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