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Wednesday, June 16, 1971

RATING AND VALUATION DEPARTMENT

No Need To Recruit Qualified Officers From Abroad

The Commissioner of Rating and Valuation, Mr. N. Cooke, says

the successes of Valuation Assistants at overseas professional examinations

in recent years mean that the department will no longer have to look

abroad for qualified officers to fill the professional ranks of the department.

Mr. Cooke revealed that in March this year nine more Valuation

Assistants passed the final professional examinations leading to qualified

membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

This brings to 38 the number of Valuation Assistants who have

successfully completed their examinations.

Mr. Cooke said there are a further 40 officers in the grade of

Valuation Assistant at varying stages of qualification and results of the

first and intermediate examinations are expected shortly.

All these officers are trained in the department and study by

means of day-release courses and evening classes at the Hong Kong Technical

College, while others take correspondence courses arranged by the College

of Estate Management, London.

Following qualification the department usually arranges for officers

to spend six months in England attached to a well-known firm of Rating

Surveyors in London, Mr. Cooke said.

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