1.12. Revenue collected by the Department from land transactions amounted to $140.5 million as compared with $204 million during the previous year. There were two reasons for this reduction: firstly, there was less land within the urban areas available for auction, and secondly, there was a fall-off in demand for sites for residential development.
1.13. In July, as a result of the abnormal settlement of a number of widely-scattered buildings in the Mong Kok area of Kowloon that had been occurring during the previous months, Hong Kong University was commissioned to prepare a Report. Mr. P. LUMB of the University was in charge of the necessary investigations, and by the end of the year, his Report had been completed and was in the hands of the Government Printer.
ORGANIZATION
1.14. The main spheres of responsibility in the Department continued to be Land, Buildings, Engineering, and Water.
1.15. The Roads, Drainage, Port Works, and Development Offices were combined into a single Civil Engineering Office under the control of the Government Civil Engineer and two Assistant Government Civil Engineers. Details of the organization of this new sub-department are given in para. 4.02.
1.16. As a result, the Department now comprises 6 sub-departments, viz: Waterworks Office, Crown Lands & Survey Office, Civil Engineering Office, Architectural Office, Buildings Ordinance Office, and the Electrical & Mechanical Office. The object of this re-organization is to decentralize wherever possible. Day-to-day decisions on all matters other than programming and policy are now taken by the sub-departments, which have become virtually autonomous in this respect. Public Works Department Headquarters is reduced in size and concerns itself with departmental policy, future works programmes, and co-ordination.
STAFF
1.17. The total staff numbered more than 8,000, of whom 431 were professional officers. Occupants of super-scale posts, distribution of staff, and rates of pay of artisans and labourers are given in Appendices D, E & F, respectively.
1.18. During the year, the following senior officers left Hong Kong on leave prior to retirement.
Mr. R. FAIRBAIRN, Government Building Surveyor, on 1st September, 1964.
Mr. H. Ross, Chief Architect, on 26th July, 1964.
1.12. Revenue collected by the Department from land transactions amounted to $140.5 million as compared with $204 million during the previous year. There were two reasons for this reduction: firstly there was less land within the urban areas available for auction, and secondly there was a fall-off in demand for sites for residential development.
1.13. In July, as a result of the abnormal settlement of a number of widely-scattered buildings in the Mong Kok area of Kowloon that had been occurring during the previous months, Hong Kong University was commissioned to prepare a Report. Mr. P. LUMB of the University was in charge of the necessary investigations and by the end of the year his Report had been completed and was in the hands of the Government Printer.
ORGANIZATION
1.14. The main spheres of responsibility in the Department continued to be Land, Buildings, Engineering, and Water.
1.15. The Roads, Drainage, Port Works and Development Offices were combined into a single Civil Engineering Office under the control of the Government Civil Engineer and two Assistant Government Civil Engineers. Details of the organization of this new sub-department are given in para. 4.02.
1.16. As a result the Department now comprises 6 sub-departments, viz: Waterworks Office, Crown Lands & Survey Office, Civil Engineering Office, Architectural Office, Buildings Ordinance Office and the Electrical & Mechanical Office. The object of this re-organization is to decentralize wherever possible. Day-to-day decisions on all matters other than pro- gramming and policy are now taken by the sub-departments, which have become virtually autonomous in this respect. Public Works Depart- ment Headquarters is reduced in size and concerns itself with depart- mental policy, future works programmes and co-ordination.
STAFF
1.17. The total staff numbered more than 8,000 of whom 431 were professional officers. Occupants of super-scale posts, distribution of staff and rates of pay of artisans and labourers are given in Appendices D, E & F respectively.
1.18. During the year the following senior officers left Hong Kong on leave prior to retirement.
Mr. R. FAIRBAIRN, Government Building Surveyor, on 1st September,
1964.
Mr. H. Ross, Chief Architect, on 26th July, 1964.
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