Colonial Secretary's
Memorandum on the Estimates of Expenditure, 1938.
Head 1-His Excellency the Governor.
Provision has been made under this Head for a Private Secretary who will replace the Cadet Officer now acting in that post.
Head 2-Colonial Secretary's Office and Legislature.
Provision has been made for two unpassed Cadets in training whom it is hoped to recruit shortly to relieve a serious shortage of Administrative Officers. A demand for Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff Clerks in other departments has necessitated the transfer of a Class III clerk elsewhere without replacement by another member of the cadre. Provision has been made under "Attached " for three new probationers who will ultimately replace existing and anticipated vacancies in the cadre of this service.
Head 3-Secretariat for Chinese Affairs.
1. The control of factories and workshops is being vested in the Urban Council from the 1st January, 1938, and the Assistant Inspector of Factories with one Class V clerk has accordingly been transferred to Head 23-Sanitary Department. The post of Inspector of Factories which has remained vacant since the death of Inspector Meade, has been abolished.
2. The acceptance of the Muitsai Commission Majority Report has rendered it necessary to make provision for a Lady Assistant and three additional Female Inspectors of Muitsai. The scale of salary proposed for the former is that provided for European mistresses in the Education Department and cannot be taken as final pending the selection of a suitable candidate for the post. Additional provision for Transport has also been made. It has been possible to decrease the existing staff by one Cadet Officer, whose duties will be taken over by the Lady Assistant, and by one clerk, whose duties as interpreter will be carried out by one of the Female Inspectors.
Head 4-Treasury,
1. It is proposed to purchase a new Cash Register to supplement the three existing machines which are in such constant use that not one can be spared for overhaul.
2. For some time past it has been necessary to engage temporary shroffs during busy periods and it is thought advisable to make specific provision for these henceforth.
Head 5 Audit Department.
Under this Head provision has been made for a Personal Pensionable Allow- ance of £60 per annum to Mr. B. E. Maughan, which has been approved by the Finance Committee.
Head 6-District Office, North.
The sum of $50 has been provided under this Head for upkeep of the wire- less loudspeaker at Taipo Market donated by Mr. W. H. Bell. It is proposed to pay part cost of upkeep and to use the apparatus for the dissemination of public health propaganda.
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