CO129-561-9 Vacancies in Public Works Department 8-7-1937 - 9-7-1938 — Page 44

PARTICULARS OF OFFICE OF OVERSFER NOW VACANT IN

THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, HONG KONG.

1. Duties of Office and

Qualifications required for their performance.

2. Language qualifications

required.

3. Salary

see also under 4).

4. Conversion of Salary

into local currency.

Contribution of provident fund.

5. Allowances, quarters and

other circumstances affecting the value of the office.

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Overseer for Waterworks who has had considerable mechanical experience and is capable of supervising the running of large steam pumping plant operated by native labour. He should also have experience in laying G.I. and V. I. pipes and House Service Work (Hot and Cold). He should be between the ages of 25 to 32 and be umarried.

kil,

£310 per annum rising by four annual increments of £10, one of £20 and four of £15 to £430 per annum, with an efficiency bar after the fifth year of service.

Salaries are converted for payment in local currency at the rate of 1/3 $1.00 so long as the Treasury rate of the dollar based on the average monthly rate of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bark remains, as at present, below that rate. A deduction of 4% from salary is made as contribution to the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Scheme.

Free partially furnished quarters if available. If quarters are not available, a married officer, whose family is resident in the Colony, will receive a rent allowance not exceeding $110 a month, if he rents & tenement with the permis- sion of the Goverment; or a lodging allowance not exceeding $70 a month, if a separate self-contained tenement is not rented: and an officer with no dependents in the Colony will receive a lodging allowance not exceeding $50 a month; provided that the allowance will in no case exceed the rental which is actually paid, and that these allowances may be modified or withdrewn at any time on six months' notice being given by Government. It is & condition of the occupation of free quarters or the grant of an allowance in lieu of quarters that the officer concerned does not marry except with the consent of the Governor, which will not ordinarily be given in the case of officers who are on probation or agreement. Free medical advice is available to officers and their wives and families at Government hospitals; and officers, their wives and children may obtain free medical attendance in their own homes if unable to go to a Government hospital. Free medicines are supplied with certain exceptions. officers, their wives and children

obtain reduced fees when inmates of Government hospitals.