CO129-534-3 Report of Retrenchment Commission 4-5-1931 - 19-2-1932 — Page 115

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posts should be abolished and the approved establishment

correspondingly reduced.

The

3. The Crown Solicitor has nominally two assistants but

as often as not one is seconded to another department.

duties of the Crown Solicitor and his assistant or assistants

are wide, for there is not a Government department that does

not at some time or other seck his advice. That the work

is so well done is largely due to the zeal and long hours

of overtime put in by the present holder of the post.

are three Chinese clerks, the same number that there was

10 years ago. The post of Stenographer is at present vacant

with the result that much of the typing and correspondence

is done by the Crown Solicitor himself.

H.K. Holmes

There

4. At first glance it would appear that in the Land Office

there was occasion for retrenchment. In 1931 the staff of

this department consisted of a Land Officer

Assistant Land

Officer and five Chinese clerks. In 1931 there are twelve

Chinese clerks a Class II officer of the Senior Clerical and

Accounting Staff, who is practically an Assistant Land

Officer, a Stenographer, Assistant Land Officer and Land

Officer. It was pointed out to the Commissioners that up

to 1921 there had been no increase in the staff for 25 years.

The work of the Land Office consists chiefly in deeds

registration and the issue of Crown leases. Though there

has been no substantial increase in the former, the number of

Crown leases issued has grown to such an extent that in the

first half of 1930 more Crown leases were granted than in

any single previous year. As in one day a clerk can engross

only one or two leases, it can be readily understood why

there should have been such an increase in the clerical