CO129-561-9 Vacancies in Public Works Department 8-7-1937 - 9-7-1938 — Page 38

No. 538.

53614.

Sir,

5.38

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG.

18th August, 1937.

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P.F

I have the honour to inform you that,

subject to your approval, I propose to make provision

in the Estimates for 1938 for a new post of Quantity

Surveyor in the senior grade of the Public Works

Department and to request that if you have no

objection steps may be taken to recruit a suitably

qualified officer in accordance with the particulars

of office which are enclosed herewith.

2.

The duties of Quantity Surveyor have for

some years past been performed by Mr. F. J. Ling who

is now on leave prior to retirement as reported in

Sir Andrew Caldecott's despatch No. 288 of 15th April,

1937. Mr. Ling who entered the service of this

Government as an overseer, was, on obtaining the

necessary qualifications, in 1929 given the title of

Quantity Surveyor on a special salary of £600 by

£25 to £700 with free quarters. It is considered

however that a more suitable scale and one more likely

to attract a satisfactory candidate would be that

drawn by Land Surveyors in the Public Works Department.

3.

In view of the fact that revised rates of

pay based on African scales have not been adopted

in the case of these officers provision for rented

Government quarters or for rent allowance on the old

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

W.G.A.ORMSBY-GORE, P.C., M.P.,

&c., &c., &c.