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office accommodation will suffice for the present and small offices for overseers can be built at each work. It may eventually be necessary to provide a store and yard for materials, but there is room at the Public Works Department
Depot at Wanchai until a site can be found, No special
provision beyond a possible expansion of certain votes will
be necessary this year, but in the estimates for next year
the new Department would be show and the estimates of the
Public Works Department would be reduced accordingly.
6.
I propose that the new Department should be
under the charge of Mr. John Dunom, M.I.C.E,, a highly
qualified engineer, who during thirteen years of service
in the Public Works Department has shown marked capacity
of both an administrative and technical kind. He has for
the past three and half years been Engineer-in-Charge of
the Praya East Reclamation works in addition to other
Harbour Works, and I have entire confidence in his ability to perform the responsible duties that the development of
the Port will entail. At present Mr. Duncan's emoluments
consist of a pensionable salary of £725 rising to £950 per
annum by annual increments of £25, and he is now drawing
salary at the rate of £750 with a charge allowance of £100
per annum and a special allowance of 83,000 per annum. If
he is appointed to the post of Port Engineer I recommend that he should continue to draw his pensionable salary and that in place of the other emolumenta mentioned he should
drew e non-pensionable allowance of 86,000 per amum.
7.
Mr. Duncan has at present two Engineers on
whom responsibility for much of the construction work in
progress falls. They are Mr. Adam Anderson and Mr. Andrew
Nicol. Mr. Anderson joined the Public Works Department in October, 1914, as a Surveyor, and efter serving in the War from March, 1917, to August, 1919, he was promoted to be an Engineer. He has been employed on the Praya East
Reclamation