PUBLIC CRES DEPARTMENT
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The Public Works Donartment is the largest of the of the Government departments, including as it does thirteen sub departments, some of which are larger than an ordinary department. It is the department with which the public in one way or another most frequently comes in contact. Also it is the one which spends more money than any other. For these reasons it is not unnatural that it should be the target for a good deal of criticism, both justifiable and unjustifiable.
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The department consists of a Director of Public Works, two Assistant Directors of Public Works, one for Hong Kong and one for Kowloon and New Territories, and thirteen sub dopartments Architectural, Drainago, Electrical, General
Worke, Port Dovolopment, Public Health and Buildings Ordinance Offico, Roads Piers and Bridges, Waterworks ( Maintenance), Waterworks (Construction),
Crown Lands, Survoys, Valuations
end Rosumptions, and Accounts and Stores. In charge of each sub department is an executive engineer, except for Waterworks (Construction) where there is an Assistant Director of Public Works, and except also for Crown Lands, Sunvoys, and Accounts and Stores, for each of which there is a Superintendent, and Valuations and Resumptions which consists (European staff) of one engineer and one overseer only.
2. The first thing that struck the Commissioners was tho unwieldiness of this conglomeration of departments all grouped under the one head. In no other Colony of any size aro Waterworks, Crown Lands, or Survoys for instance, under the Director of Public Works. In many Electricity is a department by itself. Tho natural result of putting so much
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