Estimates-1960 — Page 183

HEAD 16 - MARINE DEPARTMENT

Estimate 1959/60

$12,191,400

Revised estimate 1958/59

12,557,000

Approved estimate 1958/59

14,032,200

Actual expenditure 1957/58

11,825,050

Permanent staff

Supernumerary staff

Net increase

1958/59

889

1959/60

Difference

958

+ 69

1

+ 1

70

New posts

1 Mechanical Engineer (Marine)

1 Store Officer

1 Assistant Marine Officer

3 Clerks

3 Storekeepers

1 Foreman Class II

1 Foreman Class III

4 Fitters

2 Carpenters Class I

4 Sailmaker Riggers Class I

1 Artisan Class I

1 Motor Driver

5 Painters Class I

1 Office/Workshop Assistant

1 Store Attendant

3 Store Coolies

7 Launch Engineers Class I*

3 Launch Engineers Class II*

8 Coxswains Class I*

2 Launch Engineers Class III*

6 Stokers Class I*

3 Leading Seamen*

6 Seamen Class I*

Existing posts deleted

1 Surveyor of Ship

2 Carpenters Class II

4 Sailmaker Riggers Class II

5 Painters Class II

1 Coxswain Class II*

5 Launch Engineers Class IV*

3 Stokers Class II*

22 Seamen Class II*

Supernumerary Staff

1 Officer-in-Charge Gunpowder Depot*

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91

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# Approved by Special Warrant during the year.

The new post of Mechanical Engineer (Marine) is for maintenance of the high speed engines now in use and is offset by one post of Surveyor of Ships. It has been necessary to strengthen considerably the staff of the Government Slipway stores at Yau Ma Tei and this has been done by the addition of one post of Stores Officer, three posts of Storekeeper, one post of Stores Attendant and three posts of Store Coolie. At the commencement of the year the unallocated stores now handled for the department by the Government