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PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.
1 4th. Grade Clerk, Crown Lands and Surveys,
1 5th. Grade Clerk, Public Health and
Buildings Ordinance Office,
1 Caretaker-Cook for Overseers Room, Taipo.
POST OFFICE.
16th. Grade Shroff.
There are also sundry alterations in minor
appointments and in the pay of and allowances to the more
subordinate staff into the details of which it seems hardly
necessary for me to enter.
8.
The principal items of "Other Charges"
in the nature of "Special Expenditure" which require your
sanction are under the Fire Brigade Z1,000 for a new No. 3
Ladder and $1,486 for a smoke helmet and ladder for Yaumati,
the necessity for which is in each case explained in Appendix
I; $1,000 under Sanitary Department for the purchase of
bullocks and water carts principally for the watering of
streets at Kowloon; £45,000 under Kowloon-Canton Railway for
a bank locomotive, the purchase of which is necessitated by
this Government's engagements with China under the Draft Joint
Working Agreement and 20,000 to provide the Manager with a
residence at Kowloon for which he will pay rent.
9.
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