CO129-401 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [5-6] — Page 271

No 200

Sir,

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30 JUN 13

GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

HONGKONG, 5th, June, 1913.

I have the honour to submit for your approval

the following recomendations which have been put forward by the Director of Public Works affecting the Estimates for 1914, and to request that, if sanctioned, your decision may be comunicated to me by telegraph in order that provision for such increases may be

made in the Estimates for next year:-

(a).

One Fifth Grade Clerk in the Buildings Ordi-

-nance Office to be promoted to Fourth Grade.

I am satisfied that the work of the Buildings Ordinance is of such importance that it is desirable to raise this post to a higher grade.

(b).

One additional Assistant Engineer (2nd. Grade)

to be appointed in connection with Maintenance Work.

Mr. Chatham minuted as follows with regard to this proposed appointment:- "I consider it absolutely necessary to *appoint an additional Assistant Engineer to enable the Maintenance "Work to be properly carried on. Er. T. L. Perkins, the Executive "Engineer in charge of the Maintenance Branch, has repeatedly "complained to me that he is unable with the present staff to "exercise any effective outdoor supervision over the works in "progress and that both he and ir. H. E. Goldsmith, the Assistant "Engineer under him, have constantly to work overtime in order to "keep the work going. The adoption of a considerable amount of

"departmental

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

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LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,

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