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has been made out for the addition to the Staff of the

Public Works Department of so highly paid an Officer 28

has been suggested. On this point I think Your Lordship

must be under a misapprehension. The salaries of the two

Senior Executive Engineers, Messrs. J. F. Boulton and H. P.

Tooker, are $4,200 rising to $4,800, and both Officers are

drawing their maximum rate of pay. The salary proposed to

be paid to Mr. Boulton if promoted to the post of Second

Assistant Director of Public Works is $4,400 rising to

$5,100, or $300 per annum more than he at present receives,

and even this increase he will only obtain at the end of 3

years. It does not appear reasonable to ask him to perform

the duties of the post without either title or additional

remuneration, and, as I have already indicated I fear that

such an arrangement would cause friction.

4.

The congestion of work in the

Public Works Department still continues and cannot be

relieved so far as the work falling on the Director of

Public Works is concerned except by creating a Second

Assistant Director of Public Works who can relieve the

Head of the Department of a portion of his work, which has

recently been increased by the transfer under the Public

Health and Buildings Ordinance to the Building Authority

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