CO129-520-3 Additional pay for Cadet Officers discharging dual duties 9-9-1929 - 8-9-1930 — Page 30

from January to April. From May to December the

duties are mainly;-

(a) Provision of information (addresses and aames

chiefly) to the Treasury Solicitor. There are

upwards of 21,000 rated houses in the Colony and

the work of collecting the rates involves a large

part of the Treasury Solicitor's time.

(2)

(b) Personal inspection of New (or reconstructed)

houses for interin assessment, and of demolished

houses for cancellation of assessment. Thore ver O

555 assessments of new houses and 264 cancellationa

last year, evenly distributed throughout the year.

Bach of these involves a personal inspection

by the officer-in-charge Assessor's office.

(0)

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Monthly personal inspection of vacant tenements.

Owing to the fast that throughout the European

business sections of Central Hongkong and Kowloon

Point large office buildings have separate asscesamit a

to each flat, the number of vacant tenenenta is

considerable, vis: 192 per month in 1928–9,0f these about 2/3rds are personally inspected by the a/c

Assessor's office.

These duties involve a considerable amount of

indoor work and about 3 hours a weak of outdoor work.

4. My grounds of application are:-

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(m) The Offices of Assessor A Batate Duty Com-

missioner are not related to one another in any

intimate relation of superiority or subordination

(Hongkong 0.0.93, 0ol.Reg.5+ (3) (a) ). They az

in fact related only in that they are both in the

one department, the Treasury. Their difference

is indicated by the fact that the office of Assessor

of Rates is best filled by a surveyor or architect

(Mr. Hing is a qualified architect) and the office

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