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MILITARY WORKS SUB-DIVISION
(including the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force)
8.50 This Sub-Division is controlled by a serving Officer of the Royal Engineers stationed at the Head Office, the remainder of the staff being deployed in the three Military Works Electrical and Mechanical Depots. These Depots are situated in the main military complexes with one responsible for Hong Kong Island, one for Kowloon and one for the New Territories. Each Depot is supervised by a Warrant Officer or Senior Non-Commissioned Officer of the Royal Engineers on secondment. The staff of each Depot numbers about 90 and they have a small workshop with minor repair and test facilities to assist them in their work.
8.51 The Sub-Division is responsible for the operation and minor maintenance of non-combat electrical and mechanical equipment in Royal Naval, Army and Royal Air Force installations and barracks and in some 3,500 services married quarters and hirings. This equipment includes air conditioning plants, cold stores, steam boilers, pumping stations, swimming pools, generators and other equipment and the maintenance of switchgear, air compressors, workshop equipment, grass cutters, cookhouse equipment and a wide range of domestic equipment in married quarters. In all, over 60,000 items are involved, including 5,000 refrigerators and over 50,000 items of domestic equipment including fans, cookers, water heaters, irons and vacuum cleaners. Major maintenance is undertaken by the Workshops and Maintenance Sub-Division or in-situ by staff from these Workshops. The maximum liaison between the Military Works Depots and the main Workshops is ensured by an experienced P.W.D. Inspector who plans and controls the work.
8.52 The Sub-Division thus provides for the Armed Forces a service which is essentially one of control and management involving electrical and mechanical equipment which varies from a simple domestic iron to a 2,000 KVA frequency changer at HMS "Tamar".
8.53 APPRENTICE TRAINING At the end of the year there were 497 apprentices under training, of whom 389 were Craft Apprentices and 108 were Technical Apprentices. Owing to the financial restrictions the intake of apprentices this year was reduced in numbers.
8.54 Another cup recently known as the 'Brown Cup' awarded annually to the best Technical Apprentice was shared this year between Mr. LEUNG Ching-biu of Water Works Office and Mr. CHAN Wai-yam of this Office. donated by the Engineer (Training) of this Office, 'Laishley' cup, to be awarded every six months to the best Craft Apprentice, was won by Mr. CHEUNG Wai-kuen also of this Office. Both trophies were presented to the winners by the Hon. James WU Man-hon, O.B.E., J.P., at the Completion of Apprenticeship Ceremony held in September 1975.
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