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PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.
1 5th. Grade Shroff to "Accounts, Correspond-
-ence & Stores".
1 3rd. Grade Clerk
To Waterworks.
1 3rd. Grade Meter Reader
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KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
1 Tinsmith at 92 cents per day
3 Apprentice Carpenters
1
2
At 10 cents
Electrician) ench per
day.
Painters
To Locomotive, Carriage & Wagon
Expenses, on tem- -porary establish. -ment.
1 Station Inspector at £240 to £270 by
£15 triennially, in place of 1 Hend Guard (£150 to £180 by £15 biennially)
on temporary establishment. 16th. Grade Telephone Clerk on temporary
establishment.
7.
From the Recapitulation of the Abstract
of Differences it will be seen that a considerable number of posts have been abolished so that the net increase in Personal Emoluments due to new posts is roughly $30,000, while the net incrense in Personal Emoluments from all oauges
is approximately 857,000 of which 851,000 is due to
Stipulated Increments.
In my address to the Legislative Council
8.
I have dealt so fully with the principal items under "Other Charges" and "Special Expenditure" that it is unnecessary to recapitulate them, but I would remark that the large expenditure contemplated on main roads has met with universal acceptance in the public press and I gather among the community generally. Improved means of communication are essential to the development of the Colony which continues
to