CO129-599-2 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949 — Page 54

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above the normal point of entry for masters and continuing with an efficiency bar between $14880 per annum and $15600 per annum to the same maximum as for senior masters. For the present inspectors of vernacular schools who are on sterling rates of pay we recommend revised salaries of $22400 per annum which will lapse when the present holders retire.

114.

We recommend that physical training instructors and instructresses should, provided that they are properly qualified, bo placed on the same scales as certificated teachers. We understand that some of those officers were placed on the temporary establishment because it was folt that when they reached a certain age they would not be physically fit to continuo as instructors. We recommend that in future the policy should be to recruit mon and womon who have qualified at the Northcote Training College in ther subjects as well as physical training, so that their usefulness will not be limited to the period during which they are capable of giving physical training instruction. As opportunity occurs, we recommend that serving physical training instructors should be given a course at Government expense at the Northcote Training College to equip them to teach in other subjects. We recommend that the physical training supervisor should on reaching the maximum of the time scale for masters be eligible to be considered for promotion to the grade of senior master.

115.

We recommend that workshop instructors at the Trade School should be on the same rates of pay as uncertificated teachers until they obtain a teachers' training certificate. If they qualify as teachers, wo recommend for them the same scales of pay as for certificated teachers.

Public Works Department.

116.

As facilities to enable engineering graduates of Hong Kong University to serve a post graduate apprentice- ship in private engineering concerns in the Colony are very limited, we recommend that the present system whereby the Public Works Department engages apprantice engineers should be continued and if possible extended. Wo consider that there should be provision on the permanent establishment of a reasonable number of posts for assistant engineers open to local graduates who have served their apprenticeship satisfactorily. For assistant engineers wo have provided a ten years scale equal in length to that proposed for assistant masters and assistant medical officers, but commencing at a slightly higher point than that for assistant masters and slightly lower than that for assistant medical officers. We recommend that assistant engineers who obtain the requisite professional qualifi- cations and prove themselves to be suitable should be considered for promotion to the engineer grade at any point on the assistant engineer scale. Promotion to the onginoor grade should be by selection and be dependent upon a vacancy occurring.

117.

We recommend that in future quantity surveyors and land surveyors should be on the same salary scale as engineers and architects. We have placed the post of Superintendent of Crown Lands and Surveys on the same level as that of an Assistant Director of Public Works and the posts of Assistant Superintendent of Crown Lands