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ono sub dopartment.

11.

This combined sub department, which

might well take the title of ' Genral Works' Office, shoull

tako over the cxccution of miscellano ous worke, which foll

to the prosont General Works Offico. The work of the Roads

and Drainago offices is so closely allica that the placing

of it under ono head shoull have good rosults. It will bo

nocessary to rotain an cnginoer in charge of cach of the

oll sub departments, but their positions will not be of

such responsibility as that of the present caocu ti vo

ongincors,

They will simply be ongineers of sono soniority,

with the oaccutivo onginoor of the combined sub department

responsible for the wholo.

22. None of the personnel of tho oxisting General Worke

Offico should be taken over by the now combined sub tepartment;

it should bo di sposod of by tormination of employment or

absorbtion cl3cxhore into the Public Works Dopartment as

vacancios occur. Constructional work by the Public Works

Departacnt will for the next for yoars bc nogligiblc; on

the other hand maintenance work will have to continuo,

proposal amounts in offcct to a reduction in the Roads and

Drainago offices.

This shop undertakes not only

Tho

23. There is included in the Roads sub lopartacnt, staffi

to carry out repairs to Govermont vohi clos at the motor

repair shop at Wanchai.

minor ropairs but major onos as soll. This is a bal case

of duplication, for at the Railway workshops at Hunghom thoro

is of necessity a far larger workshop, which, apart from

railway works, repairs Government motor vehicles. There is

not a sufficiently large number of Government vehicles to

justify tro sets of expensive ropair tools and machinery.