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has been made out for the addition to the Staff of the
Public Works Department of so highly paid an Officer 28
has been suggested. On this point I think Your Lordship
must be under a misapprehension. The salaries of the two
Senior Executive Engineers, Messrs. J. F. Boulton and H. P.
Tooker, are $4,200 rising to $4,800, and both Officers are
drawing their maximum rate of pay. The salary proposed to
be paid to Mr. Boulton if promoted to the post of Second
Assistant Director of Public Works is $4,400 rising to
$5,100, or $300 per annum more than he at present receives,
and even this increase he will only obtain at the end of 3
years. It does not appear reasonable to ask him to perform
the duties of the post without either title or additional
remuneration, and, as I have already indicated I fear that
such an arrangement would cause friction.
4.
The congestion of work in the
Public Works Department still continues and cannot be
relieved so far as the work falling on the Director of
Public Works is concerned except by creating a Second
Assistant Director of Public Works who can relieve the
Head of the Department of a portion of his work, which has
recently been increased by the transfer under the Public
Health and Buildings Ordinance to the Building Authority
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