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Technical Ofters.
of letters With the completion of the Ho Tung apartment building and the extension of the Kowloon YMCA Kowloon's diminutive post offcn is completely dwarfoil. Whereas on all hands Kowloon bears a striking evidence of con-
hands cannot be too strongly critisiderable prosperity by dint of
Kowloon,"
I must not be misinterpreted as cised.
private enterprise, it reflects little. denying to those officers of the
credit on Government when it Government who by reason of their professional qualifications, high at In dealing with subjects relating exhibits so much indiffereo with inments and technical skill should to Kowloon none are new to Your the planning and erection of n. now recaivo A full measure of their Excclleney, is representations hava value.so as to senurd to the Colony boon made to Government from post office fulfilling the require- time to time for the past three ments of the large population of the banofit of their valued services. "As, for example, the provision of years. Since the first reading of
Kowloon $19,000, recoverable in fecs, for at Appropriation: Bill three weeks
I have been in com Consultants in the Medical De ago, partment, who are professors of the munication, through the secretary, University doing with the vigilant committee of Quo Hong Kong
Association specialist and consulting work and Kowloon Residents whose value to the Celony cannot That versatile committee, who keep be over-estimated."
The abolition of the General Warks Office of the Public Works Department, referred to by the Hon. Colonial Secretary in his Budget speech, is an economy mea sure of doubtful expediency. I de not know to what extent, if at all, honourable members will share my view, but the application of the pruning knife to the techni. cal staff of top-notch men in the professional ranka of n high y specialised department may find the Colony, under normal conditione, bare of dependable men when im
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Need for Police Stations.
Recent oventa are still too fresh within dne's motory to fail to ampliasize. the need of a palico sub-
watch and ward over municipal. affairs on the Mainland, have station in Kowloon Teng. The favoured me with a list of the growth of this and adjoining dis most important subjects which ra tricts has been simply amaing, and quire Government attention. They embrace such public questions as it was with considerable` regret Kowloon's need of improved postal that residents were officially in- facilities commensurate with its formed that, owing to financial size; the provision of police pro-
tection in Kowloon Tong typhoon stringency, not only the original. signals in the north-enstern disproposal to erect a polies station. tricts of the Peninsula the need but a subsidiary proposal to erect of a portable fire-purop to deal with two police boxes with telephones. outbreaks in the outlying districts of Kowloon; the Ynumati Forrs installed in ench, have been cut out approach; hospital and bathing I have been requested to urge for
of the Estimates för 1932.
portant publia works of large facilities; and disorderly houses inconsideration the desirability of
the residential areas.
The Post Ofles..
displaying typhoon warning sign" als at Kowloon Tong and in the vicinity, of Kowloon City. The re- sidents request, made a year ago, was turned down by Government in February of this year. The cost of the erection of a typhoon signal mast at each of the two localities is comparatively small and should be Justified before the next typhoon someon
magnitude call for trained techni cians with a knowledge of local conditions that can only be nic quired after a few years' residènce To deal with the various subjects and professional practice in the in their proper order, as long ago Colony. Mistakes of unecasoned as September of last year the mon newly recruited from England K.R.A. invited the Government's unacquainted with the local phy attention to the absenos of posta) sical and climatic conditions may incilities in the Hunghom, Mong. prove en expensive as to absorb all kok, and Kowloon Tong districts the injudicious savings effected of Kowloon. In April last the during period of doubt and Committee again complained of the
Owing to the inaccessibility by anxiety. The advantage of counsatisfactory state of affairs at the available fire appliances to ordination obtained in the General the main Kowloon post offies. The certain areas in the Kowloon City Works Office will be lost by abolt Association is very modest in its district, it is considered desirable tion and, speaking as a layman, request it suggests as a temporary that provision be made for a doubt if the redistribution of work measure that the accommodation ba portable fire pump of the trailer. inconsiderable hitherto coming within the purviewinoroased by the addition of a typo. Its cost is of the General Works Office will structure similar to the adjacent and can be defended by the incrons- tend to great efficiency or poton-wooden police buildings, which ed protection afforded to the lives tial economy. One disadvantage is would enable the postal service in and property of the poorer in- obvious the disadvantage of de- general to be considerably extended habitants of the Kowloon City dis- contralisation and hence mara at a relatively small cost and bat-tricts, who are least able to bear costly supervision.
ter facilities provided for sorting, any such loss. etc, resulting in quicker delivery
Saying what I have just stated one is not unmindful of the fact that there are branches of the ser vica in which it is little short of a luxury to retain officers on sterling salaries whose positions, can and would be filled by men and women who can perform the duties, with equal if not greater efficiency but drawing their salaries in dollars,
The Olerical Services.
To better illustrate the compara- tive cost of the two divisions of the clerical service I have compiled brief summary that goes to show with how much indifference" the clamour for economy in administra. tion in received.
The members of the senior and accounting staff are all paid i sterling, while those of the junior clerical staff are paid in dollars. The comparison is a striking one.
The Senior elerical branch was staffed by '06- officers in 1931 at an esti- mated cost of
The 1032 Estimates-pro- 'vide for 50 officers whose aggregata ealaries will
amount to.............
Showing 10 fower offi- cers out of 66 at ha in-
ereused salary, of .....................
The per capita cost to the Colony of each of the aterling paid clerks will
be
$334,113
400,001
75,521
7,315
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To pursue the analysis a little more minutely. Take, for example, the case of Senior clerks in Clas II. and compare them with the Highest Claas in the Junior branch. The combined salaries of 9 of the former class are estimated at 804,481 for 1832, while 10 clerks of the latter group will cost the Co lony $53,000 next year. The com parative individual. salarica 810;909~and~35,500! It is matter of common knowledge that for locally recruited 'handa 'to attain to the Highor Class in the Junior Clerical Service they must be of great ell ciency and have acen a long period of service. The commencing solary. Fof the highest class dollar clerks in 184,900 a year, rankos are on record of qualified man with meritorioua service attaining that grade only after 30 years in Government cm- ploy. By contrast sterling clerk upon joining the service in Class 11. forthwith draws (2400, 2 OF $7.300 at Ex: la, 3d, with all the privileges of home letra, etc., and the additional cont ta taxpayers that these privileges to glorified. men imply. This differential treatment of local versus imported
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