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Wednesday, June 7, 1972
RAPID BUSINESS CROWTH AT WATERWORKS OFFICE
Additional Accounting Staff To Be Recruited
Government hopes that some of the posts approved earlier this
year for additional accounting staff to help to expand and update
the accounting systems used in the Waterworks Office can be filled soon.
Further staff proposals are under consideration by Government
and still more are under preparation in the Waterworks Office.
The Director of Public Works, the Hon. J.J. Robson, stated this
today in the Legislative Council in reply to the Hon. Wilfred Wong.
Mr. Wong had asked: "Will Government take urgent steps to
reinforce the staff of the Waterworks Office so as to enable complaints
to be dealt with speedily; and will Government also state how long it
is likely to take to dispose of outstanding complaints which have not
yet been dealt with?"
Mr. Robson said demands on the accounting side of the Waterworks
Office activities had grown rapidly since 1965 when the policy was
introduced to encourage individual flats and establishments in a building
to have separate noters.
To deal with this expansion of business, it has been necessary
to work extensive overtime, and it is proposed shortly to extend the
period between the issue of successive bills from three months to
four months."
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