Enclosure No. 3.
Particulars of Two Offices of Architects now vacant in the Public Works Department, Hong Kong.
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1. Duties of the office
and qualifications required for their performance.
Architectural Assistant who should be an Associate of the R.I.B.A. and conver san t with the routine of an Architectural Office.
He should be experienced in design and competent to prepare sketch plans, working and detail drawings, specifications and supervision of work in progress, in connect- ion with new buildings, additions and alterations, including a general knowledge of steel and reinforced concrete design and construction.
Freferably unmarried and between the ages of 25 and 35.
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2. Language qualifications
required.
Nil.
3. Salary
(see also under 4).
4. Conversion of salary into local currency.
5. Contribution under
Widows and Orphans' Pensions Ordinance.
5. Quarters, etc.
£545 per annum for the first two yeu18, £595, with Residential Allowance of £19, in the third year; thereafter, in the event of the appointment being made permanent, rising, by three increments of £25, one of £30, one of £100, and five of £30, to £950 (efficiency bar at £700), with non-pension- able Residential Allowance (payable while serving in the Colony) equivalent to 20% of salary in excess of 2500. Increments are subject to the officer's satisfactory perfomance of his duties.
Salary is paid in local currency while the officer is serving in the Colony, at a rate of exchange fixed from time to time by Government. This rate is at present 1/3a. Hong Kong $1.00 so long as the Treasury rate of the dollar, based on the average monthly rate of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, remains at or below that rate.
An abatement of 4% is made from salary under the Widows and Orphans' Pensions Ordinance.
If Government quarters are provided a rent of 12% of salary is charged in the case of unfurnished quarters, and 13% in the case of furnished quarters. If no quarters are available and if the officer rents a separ- ate tenement (i.e. a dwelling-house or self- conta in eà flat he will receive an allowance equivalent to the amount by which a certain fixed maximum rent exceeds 12% of his salary. On a salary of £700 or less this maximLUM rent is at present $150 a month, and $175 in the case of salaries over £700 and not exceeding £1,100. Ordinarily only a married officer (i.e. an officer having IN THE COLONY a wife and/or one or more sons under the age of 18 or unmarried daughters), or an officer