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sums of $10,000 and $5,000 should be made available for the maintenance of waste detection services in Hong Kong and Kowloon respectively. These sums would cover a free tap washering service which it is proposed to try experimentally for some months, the cost of which for a full year is estimated to cost $3,000. I should propose to take a special vote under Head 34 for the expenditure of $25,000 on meters, but I consider that the $15,000 for maintenance should be debited to the maintenance votes (Head 33, Sub-heads 6, 13 and 20) with separate items of "waste detection", and that supplementary votes should be taken later in the year only if these maintenance votes prove to be exceeded in fact.
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that
As regards personnel it is recommended
(a) five of the ten inspectors provided for
in the full scheme should be recruited during 1938 at salaries of $600 per annum, equal to the initial salaries of the Junior
Meter Readers. These men will be taken
on in the first place at daily rates of $1.65 per day and transferred to monthly pay with a view to ultimate permanency after a probationary period.
(b) Mr. Ewing, Inspector of Works, who already
has experience of this work will be placed
in charge of the Waste Detection Branch
and his present work taken over by an
overseer.
(c) One additional overseer on the existing