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The net increase in recurrent votes for 1958/59 is $960,200. Individual increases include $30,000 due to the payment of English examination bonuses to Police rank and file; $250,000 for courses of instruction; $38,000 for official entertainment expenses; $130,000 for telephone rents and services, mainly due to more lines being needed for new Government buildings being erected and partly due to the greater number of telephones in use in the New Territories; $500,000 for transport of Government officers occasioned by increases in fares and establishment. Under Special Expenditure an additional $270,000 is provided to meet the cost, freight, etc. for additional coins, and the contribution to the Local Loans Fund has been increased from the token sum of $100,000 to $3,250,000.

HEAD 20- NEW TERRITORIES, DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION

Estimate 1958/59

$2,178,700

Revised estimate 1957/58

1,748,000

Approved estimate 1957/58

1,747,820

Actual expenditure 1956/57

1,058,870

Permanent staff

Supernumerary staff

Net increase

1957/58

307

1958/59

Difference

381

+74

4

4

74

The net increase of 74 posts arises from the creation of the new posts listed below:-

New posts

1 Cadet Officer

2 Executive Grade Officers

1 Interpreter/Translator

10 Clerks

3 Confidential Assistants (1*)

2 Overseers

1 Foreman Class II

17 Demarcators

7 Office/Workshop Assistants

1 Office Attendant

4 Gangers

5 Messengers

20 Scavenging Coolies

74

* Approved by Special Warrant during the year.

With the development of Tsuen Wan it has proved necessary to divide the administra- tive responsibility of the Southern District and the additional posts of Cadet, one Executive Grade Officer, one Interpreter/Translator, two Clerks, one Confidential Assistant, one Land Bailiff (shown under the Public Works Department Head), two Demarcators, one Office Attendant and three Messengers form the nucleus of a new District Office, which will eventually have its headquarters in Tsuen Wan. A further post of Executive Grade Officer has been provided so that each District Officer shall in future have an Executive assistant. One additional Land Bailiff (shown under the Public Works Department Head) and four Demarcators have been provided for each of the Taipo, Yuen Long and Southern Districts to deal with the licensing of temporary structures that continue to spring up illegally in all parts of the New Territories. The additional Overseers, Foreman, Gangers and Scavenging Coolies will enable the growing scavenging services in the New Territories to be intensified and partly extended. The remaining posts are required to deal with the ever- increasing volume of clerical and land work that has arisen with the continued and rapid expansion of development in the New Territories.