Appendix Q.
REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS
FOR THE YEAR 1929.
1. This Report for the year 1929 records the works carried out by the fourteen sub-departments known as the Public Works Department viz:- Construction of Waterworks, Drainage, Architectural and Maintenance of Buildings, Maintenance of Waterworks, Buildings Ordinance, Electrical and Wireless Telegraphy, Port Works, General Works, Roads and Transport, Valuation and Resumptions, Crown Lands, Surveys, Accounts and Stores, Administrative Staff and Correspondence.
The European Staff comprises 156 Officers as follows:- 44 Engineers, 14 Survey Officers, 2 Accountants and Storekeepers, 1 Secretary, 5 Senior Clerks, 2 Stenographers, 11 Telegraph Engineers, W/T Inspectors and Operators, 77 Inspectors, Overseers, Land Bailiffs, Chief Draughtsman and Storekeepers.
The non-European Staff comprises Clerks, Draughtsmen, Surveyors, Foremen, Firemen, Messengers, Office Attendants, coolies etc. numbering 535.
HAROLD T. CREASY,
M.I.C.E., A.M.I.M.E.,
Director of Public Works.
Public Works Office,
Hong Kong, 31st March, 1930.