establishment and the effect of this was felt mainly in the level of opera-tions of the Dangerous Buildings Division and the Control and Enforce-ment Sections. Five Building Surveyors left the service during the year, while three new Building Surveyors were recruited. One Assistant Building Surveyor was promoted to Building Surveyor. Efforts at recruiting further officers in this grade, both locally and abroad, have so far produced little result. One Building Inspector, Class I and one Building Inspector, Class II, both with considerable length of service, retired during the year.
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Training
4.23. The programme of in-service training has been pursued with vigour and now falls into two categories, professional and technical.
4.24. On the professional side the policy of placing professional trainees (Surveying Assistant (Building), Class II) with professional officers qualified as Chartered Surveyors has continued. This has limited the number of such trainees but with the promotion during the year of three of them to Assistant Building Surveyor, further Surveying Assist-ants (Building), Class II can now be accepted. During the year one Surveying Assistant (Building), Class II passed the First examination of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and one passed its Inter-mediate examination.
4.25. A small committee has been formed to deal with the training of the technical stream (Surveying Assistants (Building), Class III). This committee will set and mark promotion examinations and arrange for guidance and some instruction for such technical staff, with a view to their ultimate progression to the Inspectorate grades in this Office.
Welfare
4.26. The P.W.D. Golfing Society was well supported by members of the Office and two officers served on the Committee of the Society. Interest in other collective sporting activities appears to have declined and the previously successful football team did not play last year.
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