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135.
To propose that the Airport Signals Officer should be of the same qualifications and on the same salary scale as a wireless engineer and that he should be assisted by tecimical staff of similar grades and on similar salaries to those in the Telecommunications Branch of the Post Office. We consider that the duties of the Airport Signals Supervisor are likely to be more exacting and would call for a greater degree of responsi- bility than those of a grade I wireless telegraphist in the Post Office and we have accordingly recommended a scale comiencing at the same point as that for a grade I wireless telegraphist but proccoding to a higher maximum.
136.
On the air traffic control side we realise that it will probably be necessary to recruit overscas officers for the senior posts as long as locally trained candidates are not available. As this branch of the Department is a result of recent developments, and no serving officers are available for promotion it will be necessary to recruit an overseas officer as an air traffic control officer grado I. The scale we propose runs from $12000 per annum to $16320 per annum. The lower end of this scale overlaps the scale suggested for air traffic control officers grade II. In due course whon air traffic control is well established, promotions to grade I vacancios will probably be made from grade II. In that event the promotion bar between the two scalos will have to be moved to $14160 per annum. Air traffic control officers will be assisted by air traffic control super- visors whom it should be possible to recruit and train locally. We propose that these officers should have obtained as a minimum qualification the Hong Kong School Leaving Cortificate and must have had satisfactory experience in airport or airline work. They will be cligible in due course after obtaining the necessary experience and training for promotion to the air traffic control officer grades. We propose a similar salary scheme for airport officers and airport supervisors.
137.
We recommend that the fire engine drivers at the airport should be selected and given their initial training by the Chief Officer, Fire Brigade, and that they should receive the same pay and allowances as fire engine drivers in the Fire Brigade.
Royal Observatory.
138.
The only mejor change which we propose in connoxion with the staff of the Royal Observatory is that professional assistants should enter the professional scalo at the same point as P.W.D. engineers and wireless engineers and continue to the same maximum. We have gradod the recently created post of Marino Liaison Officer with marino officers in the Harbour Department. We recommend that computors should roccive the same salary as grades I to III and the special grade of the Clerical Service and that the Lithographer should be on the same scale as draughtsmen in the P.W.D.
Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps.
139.
When Army officers or non-commissioned officers are seconded from regular duties to the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, we recommend that they should