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Wednesday, June 7, 1972

RAPID BUSINESS CROWTH AT WATERWORKS OFFICE

Additional Accounting Staff To Be Recruited

Government hopes that some of the posts approved earlier this

year for additional accounting staff to help to expand and update

the accounting systems used in the Waterworks Office can be filled soon.

Further staff proposals are under consideration by Government

and still more are under preparation in the Waterworks Office.

The Director of Public Works, the Hon. J.J. Robson, stated this

today in the Legislative Council in reply to the Hon. Wilfred Wong.

Mr. Wong had asked: "Will Government take urgent steps to

reinforce the staff of the Waterworks Office so as to enable complaints

to be dealt with speedily; and will Government also state how long it

is likely to take to dispose of outstanding complaints which have not

yet been dealt with?"

Mr. Robson said demands on the accounting side of the Waterworks

Office activities had grown rapidly since 1965 when the policy was

introduced to encourage individual flats and establishments in a building

to have separate noters.

To deal with this expansion of business, it has been necessary

to work extensive overtime, and it is proposed shortly to extend the

period between the issue of successive bills from three months to

four months."

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