4.26. Efforts are continuing to fill existing vacancies but the recruitment of Building Surveyors continues to be difficult and, if the upward trend in the building industry continues, competition for locally-recruited professional officers is likely to become keener.
4.27. Four members of the staff retired during the year.
Training
4.28. A Professional Training Board was established at the beginning of the year to instruct and advise Student Building Surveyors, provide them with professional training on a broader base than can be obtained from the routine work of the Office and generally assist them in their preparation for the examinations of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. A scheme for the short-term secondment of these Students to other P.W.D. Offices has been recently introduced to further these objectives. During the year there were five Assistant Building Surveyors and eight Students under training, one of whom passed the Intermediate examination of the R.I.C.S. There are eleven trainees now waiting for the results of the 1969 examinations.
4.29. The Technical Training Board, consisting of a small committee of professional officers, deals with the training of the technical grades and assists trainees in their preparation for departmental up-grading examinations which are set by the Board. All trainees are now required to pass this examination before the expiry of their four-year trial period. Of the ten trainees (Surveying Assistants (Building), Class III) who sat this examination during the year, four were successful.
Welfare
4.30. Although the Office is the smallest in the Department, nevertheless it managed to capture the E. & M. O. Cup, one gold medal (Mr. CHUN Hon-ling), two silver and two bronze medals in the various events at the P.W.D. Sports Day. Mr. S. W. G. HOLROYD gave a very spirited performance in winning a bronze medal in the Over-50's Sprint event.
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4.26. Efforts are continuing to fill existing vacancies but the recruit- ment of Building Surveyors continues to be difficult and, if the upward trend in the building industry continues, competition for locally- recruited professional officers is likely to become keener.
4.27. Four members of the staff retired during the year.
Training
4.28. A Professional Training Board was established at the begin- ning of the year to instruct and advise Student Building Surveyors, provide them with professional training on a broader base than can be obtained from the routine work of the Office and generally assist them in their preparation for the examinations of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. A scheme for the short-term secondment of these Students to other P.W.D. Offices has been recently introduced to further these objectives. During the year there were five Assistant Building veyors and eight Students under training one of whom passed the Intermediate examination of the R.I.C.S. There are eleven trainees now waiting for the results of the 1969 examinations.
4.29. The Technical Training Board, consisting of a small committee of professional officers deals with the training of the technical grades and assists trainees in their preparation for departmental up-grading examinations which are set by the Board. All trainees are now required to pass this examination before the expiry of their four-year trial period. Of the ten trainees (Surveying Assistants (Building), Class III) who sat this examination during the year, four were successful.
Welfare
4.30. Although the Office is the smallest in the Department, never- theless it managed to capture the E. & M. O. Cup, one gold medal (Mr. CHUN Hon-ling), two silver and two bronze medals in the various events at the P.W.D. Sports Day. Mr. S. W. G. HOLROYD gave a very spirited performance in winning a bronze medal in the Over-50's Sprint
event.
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