Liaison
7.51. The Branch was represented on numerous sub-committees in connection with the work of the Housing Board, the Kwai Chung Container Terminal and the 1971 Census of Housing and Population. A circular listing all planning schemes, most of which can be purchased on application to the Cartographer, was issued quarterly to departments, public utilities companies and certain non-Government organizations.
Staff
STAFF, TRAINING AND WELFARE
7.52. The total authorized establishment amounted to 875 persons, an increase of 27 over the previous year. The office continued to recruit professional survey staff for the New Territories Administration and the Civil Engineering and Highways Offices.
7.53. Two Estate Surveyors and three Land Surveyors were appointed on contract during the year. Four locally qualified Assistant Estate Surveyors were promoted to Estate Surveyors and one Surveying Assistant (Engineering) was promoted to Assistant Land Surveyor. Four Assistant Planning Officers were recruited locally. During the year one Planning Officer left Government service on completion of his contract. Mr. Y. K. TAM, M.B.E., Land Surveyor, who had served the office loyally and cheerfully for nearly 45 years, having been re-employed after retirement in 1961, died. Mr. P. B. MOORE (Estate Surveyor) was killed in an air accident while on duty with the R.H.K.A.A.F. At the end of the year seven vacancies existed for Estate Surveyors (including 2 on the Establishment of the New Territories Administration), two for Land Surveyors, and one for a Planning Officer.
Training
7.54. Surveying Assistants (Engineering, Estate, Land and Planning) are mostly young men with the appropriate academic qualifications, often recruited immediately after leaving school. Joining the service initially at Class III level, they attend a comprehensive course in land survey and thereafter the Engineering and Land streams are attached to various functional survey sections for field and practical experience for a period of 12 months, whilst the Estate and Planning streams are similarly attached for 6 months before joining their respective branches.
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Liaison
7.51. The Branch was represented on numerous sub-committees in connection with the work of the Housing Board, the Kwai Chung Container Terminal and the 1971 Census of Housing and Population. A circular listing all planning schemes, most of which can be purchased on application to the Cartographer, was issued quarterly to departments, public utilities companies and certain non-Government organizations.
Staff
STAFF, TRAINING AND WELFARE
7.52. The total authorized establishment amounted to 875 persons, an increase of 27 over the previous year. The office continued to recruit professional survey staff for the New Territories Administration and the Civil Engineering and Highways Offices.
7.53. Two Estate Surveyors and three Land Surveys were appointed on contract during the year. Four locally qualified Assistant Estate Surveyors were promoted to Estate Surveyors and one Surveying Assistant (Engineering) was promoted to Assistant Land Surveyor. Four Assistant Planning Officers were recruited locally. During the year one Planning Officer left Government service on completion of his contract. Mr. Y. K. TAM, M.B.E. Land Surveyor, who had served the office loyally and cheerfully for nearly 45 years, having been re- employed after retirement in 1961, died. Mr. P. B. MOORE (Estate Surveyor) was killed in an air accident while on duty with the R.H.K.A.A.F. At the end of the year seven vacancies existed for Estate Surveyors (including 2 on the Establishment of the New Territories Administration), two for Land Surveyors, and one for a Planning Officer.
Training
7.54. Surveying Assistants (Engineering, Estate, Land and Planning) are mostly young men with the appropriate academic qualifications, often recruited immediately after leaving school. Joining the service initially at Class III level, they attend a comprehensive course in land survey and thereafter the Engineering and Land streams are attached to various functional survey sections for field and practical experience for a period of 12 months, whilst the Estate and Planning streams are similarly attached for 6 months before joining their respective branches.
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