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HEAD 39 - STORES DEPARTMENT

Estimate 1955/56

Revised estimate 1954/55

$7,614,500

6,976,000

Approved estimate 1954/55

6,364,521

Actual expenditure 1953/54

1,265,085

1954/55

1955/56

Difference

Temporary staff

Supernumerary staff

484

517

+ 33

1

1

189.

The increase of 33 posts comprises 38 new posts less 5 existing posts deleted in respect of 5 Artisans formerly daily-rated who have been found medically unfit for transfer to the monthly-paid establishment. The 38 additional posts are as follows:

Taken over from

P.W.D.

New Posts.

1 Stores Officer

2 Assistant Stores Officers

1

1

1

7 Clerks

6

1

1 Storekeeper Class I

1

2 Storekeepers Class II

2

10 Storekeepers Class III

8

2

1 Temporary Storekeeper

1

1 Foreman Class III

1

1 Chargehand

1 Motor Driver

3 Watchmen

1

1

3

8 Stores Attendants

38

8

28

10

The 28 posts taken over from the Public Works Department are in respect of the Waterworks Stores and the Electrical and Mechanical Stores which are now the responsibility of the Controller of Stores. In order to ensure efficient control over the Waterworks Stores it has been found necessary to provide additional posts of 1 Assistant Stores Officer and 2 Storekeepers Class III in place of posts of 1 Foreman Class III and 3 Fitters Class B retained by the Public Works Department for duties connected with the Waterworks.

190.

Of the remaining new posts, the additional Clerk, Temporary Storekeeper and Chargehand are required as the result of increased work in the Stores Department generally. A Motor Driver is needed for the additional lorry which the Department requires next year and the 3 Watchmen were approved during the year for Godowns taken over from the Commerce and Industry Department. The changes in establishment, together with normal increments and salaries revision, result in an increase of $280,259 in the vote for Personal Emoluments.

191.

Under Other Charges, an increase of $60,100 in the vote for Daily-rated staff arises from the transfer of 9 posts from the Waterworks and Electrical and Mechanical Stores, 5 posts of Artisan from the monthly paid establishment and 11 posts previously provided for in the vote for Workshop charges. The provision for office equipment is reduced by $76,000 in view of the more urgent departmental requirements having been met during the past two years. The vote for collection and storage of sand is increased by $1,200,000 on account of the consider- ably increased demand, this expenditure being offset by equivalent revenue from sand sales.

192.

Special Expenditure includes provision of $1,634,000 for furniture for new Government buildings expected to be completed during the year and $88,000 for 4 replacement lorries and a new lorry found necessary on account of the increasing volume of stores handled. Storage racks costing $16,000 are required for the new Public Works Department Workshops at Caroline Hill in order to ensure efficient storekeeping.