Appendix Q.
REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS FOR
THE YEAR 1939,
During the year under review the Public Works Department consisted of eleven sub-departments or offices: Accounts, Architectural, Buildings Ordinance, Crown Lands and Surveys, Drainage, Electrical, Port Works, Roads and Transport, Valuations and Resumptions, Waterworks Construction Waterworks Maintenance.
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2. The staff of the Public Works Department comprised 134 European officers, including seven temporary officers, and 513 non-European officers, including 21 temporary officers. The number of daily paid artisans and labourers averaged 1,722.
3. These were under the administrative control of the Director and two Assistant Directors (one for Hong Kong Island and the other for the Mainland).
4. From 1st January, 1939, the Waterworks were put on a self-supporting basis with a separate budget. This has resulted in partial decentralization of the Waterworks Office from the Public Works Department. A new post of Waterworks Engineer was created and all Waterworks staff and maintenance charges appear under a new Head B of the Public Works Department Estimates.
5. The departmental report for this year is presented in a new form, each office having a separate section of its own. The expenditure incurred by each office is detailed in tables at the end of the report.
Hong Kong, 16th April, 1940.
A. B. PURVES,
M. Inst. C.E.,
Director of Public Works.