Planning Officer was promoted to Planning Officer. During the year one Land Surveyor left Government service on completion of his contract. Mr. G. E. ROYLANCE, M.B.E. (Mil.), E.D., who had served the office loyally and cheerfully for nearly 38 years, retired in June 1971. At the end of the year ten vacancies existed for Estate Surveyors and two for Land Surveyors.
Training
7.55 Surveying Assistants (Land, Engineering, Estate and Planning) are mostly young men with the appropriate academic qualifications, often recruited immediately after leaving school. They all join the service initially at Class III level. Surveying Assistants (Land and Engineering) attend a comprehensive course in land survey for 8 months, while the Estate and Planning streams attend a shorter course. Thereafter, the Surveying Assistants (Engineering) are attached to various functional survey sections for field and practical experience for a period of 12 months before being posted to the Engineering Office for further in-service training. Surveying Assistants (Land, Estate and Planning) do the whole of their in-service training in Crown Lands and Survey Office. At the end of 31 years, Surveying Assistants of the four streams sit for a promotion examination and, subject to passing this and satisfactory service, are promoted to Class II at the end of four years.
7.56 Officers recruited in the Surveying Assistant grades, although not pupils, are, subject to holding the necessary academic qualifications, able to take professional examinations. In the 1971 Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors examinations (Land Surveying Section) one Surveying Assistant (Land) passed the first examination, one Surveying Assistant (Engineering) passed the intermediate and three Surveying Assistant (Land) passed the final examination; in the General Section one Student Estate Surveyor passed the final examination and four Student Estate Surveyors as well as one Surveying Assistant (Estate) Class III passed the first examination.
7.57 During the year one Survey Training Class comprising 4 Surveying Assistants (Land) Class III and 5 Surveying Assistants (Engineering) Class III completed an 8 months full-time course and one Cartographic Training Class of 13 Cartographic Assistants Class III, 7 from this office and 6 from New Territories Administration, completed a six months full-time course.
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