employee from daily pay to monthly pay continued during the year. Staff totalled 6,514 against an authorized establishment of 6,775.
8. Some slight improvement took place in the recruitment of overseas staff but various vacancies remain unfilled and the position cannot as yet be considered satisfactory.
9. Total expenditure by the Department was again a record amounting to $249,393,000 compared with $201,004,000 for the previous year. A break-down of departmental expenditure over the last nine years is presented in paragraph 358 of this report.
TRAINING
10. In furtherance of the policy of providing training facilities for artisans and young professional engineers an additional fifteen youths between the ages of fifteen and seventeen signed agreements whereby they will follow a course of instruction over a three-year period, part-time in the waterworks or mechanical workshops and part-time at the Technical College. This brought the number of craft apprentices up to sixty-eight.
11. The indenture of twelve engineering graduates from the University of Hong Kong to the Director on behalf of the Institution of Civil Engineers assisted them in gaining practical experience leading to Associate Membership of the Institution. Six architectural graduates of the University who were appointed as Apprentice Architects, and posted to the Architectural Office, continued to gain practical experience leading to their eventual registration as Authorized Architects under the Buildings Ordinance, 1955.
12. During the summer vacation, six Hong Kong University engineering students were attached to various sub-departments for training; two architectural students were attached to the Architectural Office.
VISITORS DURING THE YEAR
13. The Rt. Hon. K. J. HOLYOAKE, P.C., leader of the New Zealand Government Opposition, spent a week in the Colony in February. He showed a keen interest in development projects and inspected, by helicopter, some of the more remote works such as the Shek Pik water supply scheme.
14. In April, a group of engineers and architects of the French consulting firm of Cobaty International, Paris, spent several days visiting resettlement estates and projected water supply schemes.
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employee from daily pay to monthly pay continued during the year. Staff totalled 6,514 against an authorized establishment of 6,775.
8. Some slight improvement took place in the recruitment of over- seas staff but various vacancies remain unfilled and the position cannot as yet be considered satisfactory.
9. Total expenditure by the Department was again a record amount- ing to $249,393,000 compared with $201,004,000 for the previous year. A break-down of departmental expenditure over the last nine years is presented in paragraph 358 of this report.
TRAINING
10. In furtherance of the policy of providing training facilities for artisans and young professional engineers an additional fifteen youths between the ages of fifteen and seventeen signed agreements whereby they will follow a course of instruction over a three year period, part- time in the waterworks or mechanical workshops and part-time at the Technical College. This brought the number of craft apprentices up to sixty eight.
11. The indenture of twelve engineering graduates from the Univer- sity of Hong Kong to the Director on behalf of the Institution of Civil Engineers assisted them in gaining practical experience leading to Associate Membership of the Institution. Six architectural graduates of the University who were appointed as Apprentice Architects, and posted to the Architectural Office, continued to gain practical experience leading to their eventual registration as Authorized Architects under the Buildings Ordinance, 1955.
12. During the summer vacation six Hong Kong University engineer- ing students were attached to various sub-departments for training; two architectural students were attached to the Architectural Office.
VISITORS DURING THE YEAR
13. The Rt. Hon. K. J. HOLYOAKE, P.C., leader of the New Zealand Government Opposition, spent a week in the Colony in February. He showed a keen interest in development projects and inspected, by helicopter, some of the more remote works such as the Shek Pik water supply scheme.
14. In April a group of engineers and architects of the French consulting firm of Cobaty International, Paris, spent several days visiting resettlement estates and projected water supply schemes.
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