5.02. Senior recruitment included 1 Senior Planning Officer, 2 Estate Surveyors, 2 Land Surveyors and 5 Assistant Planning Officers but the vacancies for 2 Estate Surveyors remained unfilled.
Training
5.03. Surveying Assistants (Land) Class III receive 3 years basic survey training and their promotion and confirmation to the permanent establishment depends on their passing a departmental examination of a high standard. All in-service training is of a practical and productive nature. Two years basic training in land surveying is also given to Surveying Assistants (Engineering) Class III prior to their posting to an engineering sub-department.
5.04. During the year 54 Surveying Assistants (Land) and 16 Surveying Assistants (Engineering) received such training. In addition, one year's basic survey training was given to 7 Surveying Assistants (Planning) and 3 Surveying Assistants (Estate); the latter sat for the first examination of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in March, 1965.
5.05. All Cartographic Assistants Class III now receive 3 years training and like Surveying Assistants, cannot be promoted to Class II or be confirmed to the permanent establishment until they have passed a departmental promotion examination. This also applies to Cartographic Assistants in the New Territories Administration who are rotated for training purposes with those in this office. During the year 65 Cartographic Assistants Class III were under productive training.
Overseas Training
5.06. In January 1965 a Land Surveyor returned from one year's training in photo-grammetry at the International School of Photogrammetry in Delft, Holland.
5.07. One Cartographic Assistant Class II was selected for advanced training and was sent to the Directorate of Overseas Survey in Britain for training in the latest cartographic techniques and modern methods of map production.
5.08. One Assistant Planning Officer was sent to Liverpool University for the course in Civic Design.
5.09. Of the four Surveying Assistants (Land) Class II who had passed the Intermediate Examination of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Land Surveying Section, the first three completed their training in Britain, two being at the School of Military Survey and one at London.