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Assistant Surveyor has been made for a half year only.
If after a trial of six months it is found, as I hope
it will be found, that the sub-department can be run
efficiently on the reduced staff the post will be
abolished. If however, it is found that the work
suffers, it will be necessary to fill the post again.
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The Lady Assistant and Translator under the Observatory on page 36 is required to deal with the large
number of technical publications received at the
Observatory in French and German.
She will be
available as translator for all Government departments.
Apart from the additional posts which were
approved by the Finance Committee last December, and
with which I do not propose to deal to-day as they were
fully discussed at the time, the principal increases shewn
in the draft Estimates of the Police Department are one
European Sub-Inspector, and two Lance Sergeants and
twenty-eight Constables in the Cantonese Contingent.
The Sub-Inspector and one Chinese detective are required
for Women and Girls' work in Kowloon, arising largely
from the new policy of dealing with brothels.
Constables are required to work three new beats in the
Tong Nei Chong district, and five Constables and one
Lance Sergeant to work two new beats in the Tai Hang
district. There has been considerable building
expansion in both these areas. Three Constables and one Lance Sergeant are required to replace four men who
were
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