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As regards the first the electrical work expands as there are more Government buildings to look after, and next year will see the completion of the new Central British School, the new Kowloon Magistracy and the new Upper Levels Police Station, and in 1937 the Queen Mary Hospital. The reasons for the storage and sale of sand by Government were explained by Your Excellency when you introduced the Budget last year. The new posts of two storemen and four coolies are required for the sand bins which have been erected. As regards diving there is the second cross hrbour pipe now to be looked after, and it is considered cheaper to employ an extra Chinese diver than to hire one from outside which has recently been the practice. For the Sanitary Department there is $8,160, which is made up by the provision of five new posts of Asiatic Sanitary Inspectors, scheme which has as its aim the replacement of European Inspec- tors; and fifteen batrine Attendants, who were previously paid for out of an "Other Charges" sub-head, so that the latter are only technically "new posts". There is $7,785 for "new posts" for the Treasury, accounted for by the new rating method, strongly advocated by the Chinese community, of assessment by floors instead of whole houses, and by the temporary engagement of an officer to act for another on leave. The institution next year of an Aviation Meteorological Service is responsible for the $6,000 for "new posts" under the Observatory, as well as for part of the "new posts of the Post Office (B) Wireless and the Public Works Department. The remainder of the new posts are comparatively unimportant, and I will deal with them when I come to the particular departments concerned.
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