INTRODUCTION.
1. This report covers the activities of the Public Works Department for the financial year ended 31st March, 1951.
2. Mr. E. A. Boyce, B.Sc., A.M.I.C.E., Director of Public Works, relinquished duties owing to ill health on the 13th April, 1950, and Mr. A. P. Weir, M.I.C.E., M.I.W.E., Deputy Director, was in charge of the department until the writer arrived in the Colony and assumed duties on the 15th January, 1951.
3. Mr. N. K. Littlejohn, A.M.I.C.E., A.M.I.Struct.E., Executive Engineer, and Mr. W. W. C. Shewan, Dip. Arch. (Aberdeen), F.R.I.B.A., Chief Architect, were appointed Assistant Directors with effect from 28th April, 1950 and 17th December, 1950 respectively.
4. During the year under review the operations of the department were carried out, under the direction of a headquarters staff, by eight sub-departments, namely Architectural, Buildings Ordinance, Crown Lands and Survey, Drainage, Electrical and Mechanical, Port Works, Roads, and Waterworks.
5. The expatriate staff of the Public Works Department comprised 132 officers, and the non-expatriate 633 officers. The number of daily rated artisans and labourers averaged 3,520.
6. During the year the Report of Mr. S. S. Ross, Organization and Methods Adviser, who had carried out a detailed organization and method survey of the department the previous year, was examined in detail and a number of recommendations were adopted with a view to simplifying departmental procedure particularly connected with routine office work.
7. Sir Patrick Abercrombie's Preliminary Planning Report on the preparation and development plan for the Colony, which had been prepared in 1948, was examined in detail and a scheme for the redevelopment of Yaumati incorporating a Community Centre was prepared.
8. Although the work of the department was considerably handicapped by the lack of adequate professional staff it was possible to carry out, in addition to the normal and recurrent programmes of work and the projects described in some detail in the following pages, a number of security measures including the fencing of the frontier to restrict unauthorized immigration.
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INTRODUCTION.
1. This report covers the activities of the Public Works Department for the financial year ended 31st March, 1951.
2. Mr. E. A. Boyce, B.Sc., A.M.I.C.E., Director of Public Works, relinquished duties owing to ill health on the 13th April, 1950, and Mr. A. P. Weir, M.I.C.E., M.I.W.E., Deputy Director, was in charge of the department until the writer arrived in the Colony and assumed duties on the 15th January, 1951.
3. Mr. N. K. Littlejohn, A.M.I.C.E., A.M.I.struct.E., Executive Engineer, and Mr. W. W. C. Shewan, Dip. Arch. (Aberdeen), F.R.I.B.A., Chief Architect, were appointed Assistant Directors with effect from 28th April, 1950 and 17th December, 1950 respectively.
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During the year under review the operations of the department were carried out, under the direction of a headquarters staff, by eight sub-departments, namely Architectural, Buildings Ordinance, Crown Lands and Survey, Drainage, Electrical and Mechanical, Port Works, Roads, and Waterworks.
The expatriate staff of the Public Works Department comprised 132 officers, and the non-expatriate 633 officers. The number of daily rated artisans and labourers averaged 3,520.
6. During the year the Report of Mr. S. S. Ross, Organization and Methods Adviser, who had carried out a detailed organization and method survey of the department the previous year, was examined in detail and a number of recommendations were adopted with a view to simplifying departmental procedure particularly connected with routine office work.
7. Sir Patrick Abercrombie's Preliminary Planning Report on the preparation and development plan for the Colony, which had been pre- pared in 1948, was examined in detail and a scheme for the redevelopment of Yaumati incorporating a Community Centre was prepared.
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Although the work of the department was considerably handi- capped by the lack of adequate professional staff it was possible to carry out, in addition to the normal and recurrent programmes of work and the projects described in some detail in the following pages, a number of security measures including the fencing of the frontier to restrict unauthorized immigration.
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