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SEVERAL BIG PROJECTS TO BE UNDERTAKEN.

According to the Hou, Mr. E. R. Hallifax, Colonial Secre tary, no fresh taxation is proposed for the year 1933. The Colonial Secretary, who introduced the Badget for 1863 at a meeting of the Legislative Council yesterday asked for $27,363, 142.

The Estimates were very much on the standard of preceding years. The Colonial Secretary expressed the hope that it "will krop us abreast of the times and ready to take advantage of the recovery that is so couâdently predicted.

"One house, one lease," will be the aim of a new Crown Leases" Ordinance to be shortly introduced in the Legislative Council.

It was indicated that there are in mind a, number of hig Government projects and some of the more prominent ones are the new Government Civil Hospital, the Central British School and the Kowloon Jiospital.

Provision is made in the Estimates for an increase in the personnel of the Medical Departments.

INCREASE IN GOVERNMENT STAFFS.

may be very misleading, c.g. under the Colonial Secretarint, it will be seen that nine Cadet Officers have to be included, whereas actually only four are working in the De- partment.

In passing javite attention to the Abstract of Differences which has been circulated. It provides much information that is now valu able, but it will be of greater uso in future years, unless the form of the Estimates undergoes still fur- ther' changes.

Alterations in Staff,

I do not proppse to deal with all the alterations in staff, as the foot- notes have beon iande very full, and it is hoped that this will make the position" clear. But there are cer- tain changes to which special refor once is desirable, in amplification of the footnotes.

A number of retirements in the senior ranks of the Cadet Servicq are expected during the next year or two, and we have to look nhend in ling the ranks of this cadre.. In the past a Cadet has not been available for duty until he has studied Chinese for two years; for the future the new unification scheme of the Colonial services re- quires him to take a course of one year's study at Home before com- ing out. We have not been able to fall completely into line at once, nud have asked for one new Cadet to be sent out at once without the year's training at Home, and other only those that have been selected two will be appointed against the from a preliminary list several eventualities of three years hence. times a long-there are necessarily.

when they will be ready for duty, a number of uncertain factors. The cost of the year in England is The praction in forming the Esti-estimated at £285, but the figure mates is to enter at ones on the list arrived too late for inclusion in all works that are definite commit

the Estimates, where the ordinary (Hon.ments, to add those considered Cadet salary of £430 has been

essential and to make a choice from

eutered. those considered desirable up to the limit of the funds available if any remain. But even in the first two categories there are many where circumstances combine to prevent the expenditure of the money allo- cated to this or that object, and among the desirables work may be postponed at any rate till late in the year swing to difficulties, such

H.E, the Officer Administering the Government, the Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn, presided.

Others present were:— The General Officer Commanding (Major-General J. W. Sandilands, C.B. C.M.G., D.8.0.).

The Colonial Secretary Mr. E. R. Hallifax).

The Attorney General (Hun. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C., O.B.E.),

The Secretary for Chinese Affairs (Hon, Mr. A. 2. Wood),

The Colonial Treasurer (Hon. Mr. Edwin Taylor).

Hon. Mr. R. M. Henderson (Director' of Public Works).

Hon. Mr. H. King Acting Inspector-General of Police).

Hon, Comdr. G. F. Hole, R.N. (retired), (Harbour Master).

Heh. Dr. A. R. Wellington (Director of Medical and Sanitary

Services).

Hon. Sir Henry Pollock. Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton. Hon. Mr. K. C.M.G., LL.D.

Hou. Mr. J. P. Braga. Hon. Mr. W. Tso, O.B.E.,

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On page 16 of the Estimates ap- pear two Class 11. posts of the Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff on a dollar salary. There are two more such posts at the foot of page 13 and one each on pages 45 and 40. This represents the first step in an experiment directed to the substitution of local for Euro pear staff in some of the posts of

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as change of rite or questions of responsibility and control, now made on the ground that the pre- accommodation required or of designed to the Senior branch of mises are vacant. sign. It is in fact hardly possible the clerical service. There are at officer is required to assist in the to complete a programme of this present forty-one of these posts, but office side of the work. It is very size precisely according to a very definite plan, and a margin of branch authorized in the 1932 Estilosary tha: both the Assistant variation ін called for; and mates is only forty-nine officers, of hence a margin of saving-in whom all but three are non-local fact a slightly inflated estimate and require long leave at intervals is unavoidable. Considerations of four years. Consequently during such as these, invariable under the current year one post has been expenditure which cannot be esti- left unfilled and the others have mated for, will justify calling the fers from other branches of the been manned by temporary trans. Account balanced when mathematics would not justify the word. But service. This is unsatisfactory and Mr. R. A. C. North (Clerk of all the expenditure allowed for must in any case theso makeshift ar be at the lowest "desirable" and rangements could not continue next must at its total figure be within year. Some expansion of the staff Our means and the Government available for these clerical posi- holds that the proposals now before tions is inevitable and it is merely the Council fulfil these require a question of the nature of the

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The Colonial Scerctary, introduc ing the Budget, said:Sir, rise by Your Excellency's command to move the first reading of a Bill intituled "An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding $27,583,142 to

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first an estimate of 1/2d. as the

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Risk of Eciency.

Junior Clerical Service..

Marine Surveyors.

open the Remand Home for Juveni

European Warders. Honourable Members "will no

ferry, brickworks and large number of bathing sheds. All these in- creases are a direct result of the development and expansion that Colony. Provision is made for an has been going on throughout the Assistant Superintendent for the Anti-Piracy Guards. It is hoped to ale part of their time out of dourses at the end of this or the be- inspecting, But the absence from ginning of next year, us goon as the the office of both of them at the necessary alterations have been same time is unt to inconvenience made to the building which it is eers of the public who come to proposed to us for the purpose. see them. This state of affairs will The requisite staff, which may have of the Senior Clerical officer. The perience, is shown at the foot of be largely remedied by the prosence to be modified in the light of ex- object in view is to leave the Assist page 62. 4 Assessors us free as possible to make visits in any part of the Colony; and the justification is found in a recent intensive enquiry doubt recollect that a reduction of into a comparatively small area in five posts of European wanders in Kowloon where the Assessment was the rison Departmen, was made found to be too low by some three in the 1039 Estimates and that lakhs of dollars-representing a Government undertook to retrench shortage of me 800,000 Govern- ve more posts. Two of these five problem. If necessity compels, as

A word on the other side of the Government has from time to mout. Itevenue. The provision of a

posts now disappear, and it is_an- thePublic Bérvive, of the year it did when the dollar sank to 1/eruited officers who have fulfilled Assessors is an obviously reason-i will have been reduced by the end time had on its books locally re-motor car to assist the Assistant ticipated that the remaining threa The very full memorandum from and below, it is possible to reduce all the requirements desired, but able measure.

of 1933, as a result of leaving vacan the Clonial Treasurer, which i certain departmental expenditure something better than the prospects.

cies unfilled as they occur. The already in the hands of Hon. Mem and some Public Works. It is of the Junior Clerical Service,

ren additional temporary Guards I would invite the attention of will be dispensed with as soon as bers, howe clearly the foundation granted that this can only be done which is becoming a little nawieldy on which the Estimates for 1933 by certain risk of eficiency-as by its weight of numbers, and cou

Hon. Members to the aine Assist arrears of leave of the Indian star have been build up, the essential by reducing travelling and sequent slow promotion, is required ant Marine Surveyors and to foot- have been made good. elements of that bundation being the standard of the upkeep of roads of recruit. It is therefore proposed,

other allowances, or by lowering to attract and hold the right type note (8) on page 31. In accordance

The Medical Department shews with the undertaking given in its marked increase in personnel. The average value of the dollar, second but necessity any compel, as it subject to the approval of the Commentary on the Retrenchment most noteworthy additions are, in the view that our surplus funds in has done before The Treasurer is Secretary of State before whom the Commission that, on the post of the order in which they, appear, in scheme has bea. laid to crente &

Government Marine Surveyor fall the printed Estimates, n Class I standing by with his blus pencil na shese uncertain days should not be he notes in his memo, but he adds local section of the Senior Clerical ing vacant, there would be no car ofbeer of the Senior Clerical Staff, allowed to fall below the 810,000,000 it is not considered that the ex- mark; and thirdly the extreme dependituro shewn in the Printed

and Accounting staff, and to fill responding recruitment in the staff who is required to assist in the in. sirability of avoiding addition

it with specially selected men of of Assistant Surveyors, provision creasing amount of administrative taxation. To the best of the Gov-Estimates is beyond the resources of the type who now enter the Special for one Assistant Surveyor has been work that is involved in running a ernment's information and judg the Colony."

Class of the Junior Clerical Ser-made for a half year only. If after department the size of the Medical ment, 1/2d, -81 is a safe average form in which the 1933 Estimates valy too often just when their pro- as I hope it will be found, that the University Professors who as

I pass now to the question of the vice and unfortunately leave it trial of six months it is found, Department; a House Officer for value to accept for the whole year; have been drawn up. Hon. Meni-mise is becoming clear. The section the sub-department can be run sist the Government at the Outpati but should the dollar unfortunately fall below that figure, we have re-

bers will note that there are import will be in three classes and its main efficiently on the reduced staff the cats Department at the Civil Hos served means as I will explain later ant changes as compared with 1939, feature is a long time-scale in Cinss post will be abolished. If hospital; two European Nursing Sis- and they are the result partly of II. which will start at the same ever, it is found that the work aufters, who are required in connection fosses (unless they are altogether instructions from Home and partly gure as Special Claes Junior fers, it will be necessary to fill the with the expansion at Kowloon, abnormal) without disturbing the of an attempt to fall in with the Clerical Service, 1,200 per an- post again.

Even with these two additional Sis balance of the Budget na now before wishes of the Uncficials as ex- num and proceed by incrementa of

The Lady Assistant and Trans- tors there will be no reserves avail- The surplus balance at the

pressed last year. In either case

$150 pla. to $4,500 with efficiency lator under the Observatory on able for outside work or for times and of 1933, as far as Estimates the object was the same to show bare at 82,400 and 83,000. The great puge 38 is required to deal with of emergency. The Venereal Die- go show a surplus balance of 5 clearly as possible the separate difference between a time scule with the large number of technical pub-eased branch is strengthened by a €10,610,131, and as the Colonial cost of each Department for the efficiency bars and a scheme of Ifcations received at the Observa- Chinese Medical Officer, and Th Treasurer has explained in the year concerned. The effort to reach classes being, that the former ad- tory in French and German. She European Technical Assistant, memo the extra taxation imposed this and has shown that caution is mite of a good man going forward will be available as translator for is intended to place the latter in required in interpreting the Esti- at any time while the latter ra- all Government departments. charge of the now qlinio at Kow- full effect in 1933 and has made it culty centering in those cadres of As a start it is proposed to pro- which were approved by the Fin docks. There are also small addi- possible to proceed without con- sidoring any further additions.

the service which are not in their vide for six Class II. posta, with a ance Committee last December, and tion to subordinate staff for this nature confined to special Depart view to appointing two officers in with which I do not propose to deal | branch. Provision is made for one "Balance the Budget,"

ments. They are the Cadet Ser. the Secretariat, two in the Treasury to-day as they were fully discussed more Chiness Medical Officer for vice, the Senior Clerical and Ac and two at the Magistraces where at the time, the principal increase schools. Even with this addition I have already used the phrase counting staff and the Junior Cadet officers are now performing shewn in the draft Estimates of there will in all be only three the balance of the Budget," and Clerical Staff in the case of the clerical duties for lack of other the Police Department are one! school doctors; not an extravagant 7 hasten to support it before the first two the position being made staff. The scheme embraces a Pro- European Sub-Inspector, and two number in view of the number of int is made that it is a poor kind still more difficult by the calla of bationery Class III. for very junior Lance Bergeants and twenty-eight school children in the Colony. balance which shows an extra Homo leave. All expontes, leave recruits and a Class 1, with a Constables in the Cantonese Con- There is one new post of Chineso weight of dollars on the Expendi and other, in the case of technical salary scale of 84,000 by increment tingent. The Sub-Inspector and Lady Medical Officer under Chin. ture side.

Each and every year officers can properly be debited to of 8200 to 85,60). For the immedione Chinese detective are required ese Hospitals and Dispensaries, Government must perforce estimate their Departments; but non-tech- ate relief of the Senior Clerical for Women and Girls' work in This officer is required for gynae for a full staff on duty; but there nical officers may well have no con- position, junior recruits are useless Kowloon, drising largely from the cological work. Government anti- are invariably casualties such sa nection with the Department in and it will be some years before a now policy of dealing with brothels. cipates further increases in future cannot reasonably be foreseen which which they have been serving once member of the new cadre becomes Nine Constables are required to years in this very important work loave some balance on the total they go on leave. The precise up eligible for. Class 1. No provision work three new beats in the Wong na it does also in the Venereal Dis- Estimated under the Head Personal pointment on return from leave de is therefore being made for either Nei Chong, district, and five Conanses, School hygiene and Matern Emoluments. Further the choice of pends on circumstances-the circum. of these categories in the present stables and one Lance Sergeant to ity and Child Welfare branches. Public Works Extraordinary pro stances of small service in which it Estimates.

work "two" now beats in the Tai One more. Chinese Medica). Officer: vides very difficult problem. ie not possible to keep all Depart- The next increase to which I wish Hang district. There has been con is provided for under New Terri Each item proposed must be speci-mente sufficiently manned to meet to refer is that in the Assessor's siderable building expansion in tones The work of the Medical fically named with its figure, and all eventualities, and it is not staff of the Treasury on page 19. both these areas. Three Constables Department and of voluntary asso yet there is probably no year in only on account of leave that trans Your Excellency when introducing and one Lance Sergeant are requir- ciations is rapidly expanding in which the Public Works Department fors of the officere referred to are the Budget last year stated that an ed to replace four men who were the Now Territories with a welcome Have been able to carry out the necessary- they are constantly ofloor of the Public, Warka Depart withdrawn from regular duty for response from the villagers. Un- whole programmar and to expand all being made; but the estimates can- Dust was being seconded to the the anti-Communist section in 1981. day Kennedy Town Hospital-on the money allotted. The Depart not be stored from day to day to Assessor's office. This transfer is One Constable is required for the page 64 three posts of Staff Nurses ment is an easy publio target for show the changes. We cannot now being made permanent by the Traffe Department in Kowloon, and three of Staff Dressors have Jokes on this account, but a very therefore foresee the requirements creation of in the post of Second Five more detectives are required heen inserted. These will be sull- little rollection will show that the of next year with precision; with Assistant Assessor. There has been for the Youmati and Shamuipo cient to cope with the few onses position is one which is dictated by the result that for want of a better a-corresponding 'raduction in the districts which continue to spread. that this, Hospital receives whon. the circumstances. In such a long heading we have to leave officers, establishment of Overseers in the One detective is required for Kow there is no episodic, and will form list of works as Government has to about whose future-posts there is Public Works Department The loon City, and two-for-the easterna nucleus when there is an epide consider in any year and the de- any uncertainty, debitel to the Inspector of Tenements and the district of Hong Kong. One is re. mia. At present there is no special tailed memo by the Director of Departments in which they last Class III officer of the Senior quired for Castle Peak which is a staff for this hospital, and conse Public Works in your hands shows served or are now serving. All this Clerical and Accounting Staff are not unimportant centre with its (Continued on Pape-1.)

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