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DATE OF ACC. 87 Mar 1961
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APPENDIX G.G.
REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS
1.
FOR THE YEAR 1946-47.
This Report covers the financial "year" of eleven months from 1st May, 1946, the date of resumption of Civil Government, to 31st March, 1947.
2. The last Report issued was for the year 1939 as owing to the outbreak of war on 8th December 1941 no report was published for the fifteen months period from 1st January, 1940 to 31st March, 1941.
3. The department consists of a Headquarters and nine offices as follows: Architectural, Buildings Ordinance, Crown Lands and Surveys, Drainage, Roads, Port Works, Transport, Valuation and Resumption and Waterworks.
4. The pre-war division of duties of the two Assistant Directors was changed from zonal, i.e., Hong Kong and Kowloon, to functional, i.e. engineering and buildings.
5. The total establishment provided in the Estimates comprised 129 posts normally filled by Europeans and 511 posts filled by Asiatics. Upon the resumption of Civil Government, 29 European Officers and 297 Asiatic Officers on establishment were on duty. In addition 13 temporary European Officers and 106 temporary Asiatic Officers were employed. The daily paid staff numbered 1,837. By the end of the year, the staff on duty comprised 96 European Officers and 322 Asiatic Officers on establishment, and a temporary staff of 4 European Officers and 117 Asiatic Officers. The daily paid staff numbered 2,755. Of the European establishment, 3 officers had not returned from recuperative leave and there were 30 vacancies.
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6. During the period of Military Administration the majority of the European staff were absent on recuperative leave following internment during Japanese Occupation.
7.
In January the Secretary of State approved the creation of 13 additional posts but none had been filled by the end of the year.
Included in the additional posts were four architects, three structural engineers and two quantity surveyors, all of whom were urgently required to assist in the large programme of rehabilitation and new construction of buildings.
ACC. NO.
1 10 8 0 you
DATE OF ACC. 87 Mand1961
CLASS NO.
AUTHOR NO.
REBOUND
HKS P97W q
27/9/61
"Page
"
APPENDIX G.G.
REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS
1.
FOR THE YEAR 1946-47.
This Report covers the financial "year" of eleven months from 1st May, 1946, the date of resumption of Civil Govern- ment, to 31st March, 1947.
2. The last Report issued was for the year 1939 as owing to the outbreak of war on 8th December 1941 no report was published for the fifteen months period from 1st January, 1940 to 31st March, 1941.
3. The department consists of a Headquarters and nine offices as follows: Architectural, Buildings Ordinance, Crown Lands and Surveys, Drainage, Roads, Port Works, Transport, Valuation and Resumption and Waterworks.
4. The pre-war division of duties of the two Assistant Directors was changed from zonal, i.e., Hong Kong and Kowloon, to functional, i.e. engineering and buildings.
5. The total establishment provided in the Estimates com- prised 129 posts normally filled by Europeans and 511 posts filled by Asiatics. Upon the resumption of Civil Government, 29 European Officers and 297 Asiatic Officers on establishment were on duty. In addition 13 temporary European Officers and 106 temporary Asiatic Officers were employed. The daily paid staff numbered 1,837. By the end of the year, the staff on duty comprised 96 European Officers and 322 Asiatic Officers on establishment, and a temporary staff of 4 European Officers and 117 Asiatic Officers. The daily paid staff numbered 2,755. Of the European establishment, 3 officers had not returned from recuperative leave and there were 30 vacancies.
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6. During the period of Military Administration the majority of the European staff were absent on recuperative leave following internment during Japanese Occupation.
7.
In January the Secretary of State approved the creation of 13 additional posts but none had been filled by the end of the year.
Included in the additional posts were four architects, three structural engineers and two quantity sur- veyors, all of whom were urgently required to assist in the large programme of rehabilitation and new construction of buildings.
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