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was again examined as a result of the Report of the Retrenchment Commission. As pointed out in Government's Commentary on that Report it is not an expensive scheme, and the finished product, the University Trained Teacher, is eminently satisfactory. It is proposed to appoint next year a Kwok Yu teacher in accordance with the recommendation of the Committee
which examined the question of the teaching of Chinese at the University, which has a direct bearing on the syllabus of Chinese at Government schools.
I come now to Public Works Department on
page 93.
Under General Staff there is an increase of
one Executive Engineer, three Engineers, one Inspector
of Works and three Overseers. But this increase is
more apparent than real, for, if to these posts are added the corresponding posts under loan Works Staff in Appendix V (C) on page 115, and the totals so obtained compared with the totals in 1932, it will be found that the number of Executive Engineers, Architects, and Inspectors of Works is the same, whilst that of
Overseers is reduced by one. When Your Excellency
introduced the Budget last year, you stated that though
the amount provided under Public Works Extraordinary
was not the sole factor which decided the size of the
staff of the Public Works Department, it was an
important one. It is this factor which has led to the
increase in the number of officers shewn under the
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department,