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Architectural Office
The additional posts are required to cope with the general overall increase in work passing through the Architectural Office. A small unit is to be formed in connexion with inspection work on educational projects including Grant and Subsidized Schools.
Buildings Ordinance Office
Staff have been provided for the new Kowloon Headquarters of the department, and additional posts have been created as a consequence of increased responsibilities deriving from the new Buildings Ordinance, 1955.
Crown Lands and Surveys Office
Additional staff has been provided for the new Kowloon Headquarters, for a training programme for Assistant Land and Engineering Surveyors, to meet the rising public demand for survey plans and the increase in survey and planning work generally.
Drainage Office
The ever-increasing building development in the Colony continues to place a burden on the Drainage Office in the shape of increasing demends for the installation of stormwater channels, drains and sewage systems together with the consequent increase in maintenance work. Additional staff have been provided to cope with this demand and to ensure that progress on major building projects, such as Resettlement Estates, is as rapid as possible.
Electrical and Mechanical Office
The work of this subdepartment continues to increase in quantity and variety as more mechanization is introduced throughout Government together with a gradual but continuous increase in motor transport. Additional posts have been provided to ensure an adequate standard of installation, maintenance and supervision.
Roads Office
The need to staff the new Kowloon Office has led to the provision of additional posts both senior and junior. The spread of the Colony's roads is keeping pace with building develop- ment generally and maintenance work has greatly increased as a result.
Waterworks Office
Major developments to provide the Colony with more satisfactory water supply have been in hand for a considerable period of time. The new reservoir at Tai Lam Chung will be in full operation next financial year. The new posts are provided to cope with the general overall
increase in work.
$5,834,810.
These changes together with normal increments account for the increase of
Under Other Charges the vote for Daily-rated Staff has been deleted and provision is now made in appropriate grades under the Personal Emoluments vote. Several votes have had to be increased slightly to cater for additional staff, the occupation of the new offices in Kowloon and the larger programme of works being undertaken.
The major Special Expenditure items are an Addressograph Machine, $51,580, for the Waterworks Office; one Concrete Testing Borer, $32,000, required by the Building Ordinance Office for testing concrete; Quarry Plant, $199,000, including a Weigh-batching and Mixing Plant for improving the standard and range of coated materials produced; 9 Road Rollers, $455,000, to meet demands on construction of numerous new roads in the New Territories and in con- nexion with resettlement and other development projects; and Workshop Equipment and Tools, $108,000. The provision of $400,000 for Motor Vehicles consists of $156,000 for revote, $78,400 for replacements of old vehicles and $165,600 for new vehicles.
HEAD 30- - PUBLIC WORKS RECURRENT
Estimate 1957/58
Revised estimate 1956/57
Approved estimate 1956/57
Actual expenditure 1955/56
$26,133,000
23,942,000
21,483,500
18,628,799
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