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PARTICULARS of the office of Surveyor and Valuer now vacant in
the public Works Department in the Colony of Hongkong.
Taties of office, and qualifications requir-
-
ed for their perform-
-anoe.
Salary of office.
Allowances, quarters and other circumstanc-
es affecting the value of the office.
Nature, number and amount of securities required, and mode of giving them.
Qualified Surveyor and Valuer mainly for Valua- -tion of private property in connection with various development schemes. The candidate se- -lected should have passed the final examination of the Surveyorat Institution in the Velation Sub-division. Preference should be given to the candidate who has had experience with large firms of Surveyors and Valuers, or in the valuation office of a large rating authority or in the Estate office of a Railway Company, Age between 25 to 30 years, umarried. The Secretary of the Surveyors' Institute night be asked to subrit names of suitable candidates, and reference should be made in this connection to Sir John Oakley.
2400 per annum rising by annual increments of $20 to £520 in the event of the appointment being made/pemiament. Promotion may eventually take ¬lácelon's salary of $550 to £625 by 25 annually and subject to efficiency bar thereafter at 2650 to 2700 by £25 annually.
Conveyance Allowance of $240 per annum.
The salary payable in dollars in accordance with Government Regulations.
Quarters are not at present available and an allowance in lieu thereof is not usually granted in the case of a bachelor occupying a tenement by himself. In the event of a married man being sent out an allowance in aid of rent would be granted depending on the rent actually paid and other circumstances.
A deduction of 4 is made from the salaries of all officers as a contribution towards pensions of widows and Orphans of public officers.
None.
Whether free passage is To be appointed on a three years agreement with ~rovided for the person the usual terms as to passage, &c.
selected and his family.
Auts, laws or Ordinances,
making provision rea-
pecting any of the above None.
matters, and especially
respecting the permanen-
-cy of the emoluments and the particulars of the security required, With reference to the
lections in which such provision is made •