STAFF, TRAINING AND WELFARE
7.60 The total authorized establishment amounted to 1,071 persons, an increase of 60 over the previous year. The office continued to recruit professional staff for the New Territories Administration and the Civil Engineering and Highways Offices.
7.61 Eleven Estate Surveyors and two Land Surveyors were appointed on contract during the year. Local officers continued to be recruited and received in-service training, and in this category six Assistant Estate Surveyors who became professionally qualified were promoted to Estate Surveyors and two Surveying Assistants (Estate) were promoted to Assistant Estate Surveyors. Two non-expatriate Assistant Land Surveyors were promoted to Land Surveyors and four non-expatriate Assistant Planning Officers were promoted to Planning Officers. During the year one Chief Estate Surveyor and five Estate Surveyors resigned, one Senior Land Bailiff retired and one Land Surveyor left Government service on completion of his contract.
Training
7.62 Surveying Assistants (Land, Engineering, Estate and Planning) are mostly young men with the appropriate academic qualifications, often recruited immediately after leaving school. They all join the service initially at Class III level. Surveying Assistants (Land and Engineering) attend a comprehensive course in land survey for 8 months, while the Estate and Planning streams attend a shorter course. Thereafter, the Surveying Assistants (Engineering) are attached to various functional survey sections for field and practical experience for a period of 12 months before being posted to one of the engineering offices for further in-service training. Surveying Assistants (Land, Estate and Planning) do the whole of their in-service training in Crown Lands and Survey Office. At the end of 31/2 years, Surveying Assistants of the four streams sit for a promotion examination and, subject to passing this and satisfactory service, are promoted to Class II at the end of four years.
7.63 Officers recruited in the Surveying Assistant grades, although not pupils, are, subject to holding the necessary academic qualifications, able to take professional examinations. In the 1972 Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors examinations (Land Surveying Division), two Surveying Assistants (Engineering) passed the Intermediate and
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Staff
STAFF, TRAINING AND WELFARE
7.60 The total authorized establishment amounted to 1,071 persons, an increase of 60 over the previous year. The office continued to recruit professional staff for the New Territories Administration and the Civil Engineering and Highways Offices.
7.61 Eleven Estate Surveyors and two Land Surveyors were appointed on contract during the year. Local officers continued to be recruited and received in-service training, and in this category six Assistant Estate Surveyors who became professionally qualified were promoted to Estate Surveyors and two Surveying Assistants (Estate) were promoted to Assistant Estate Surveyors. Two non-expatriate Assistant Land Surveyors were promoted to Land Surveyors and four non-expatriate Assistant Planning Officers were promoted to Planning Officers. During the year one Chief Estate Surveyor and five Estate Surveyors resigned, one Senior Land Bailiff retired and one Land Surveyor left Government service on completion of his contract.
Training
7.62 Surveying Assistants (Land, Engineering, Estate and Planning) are mostly young men with the appropriate academic qualifications, often recruited immediately after leaving school. They all join the service initially at Class III level. Surveying Assistants (Land and Engineering) attend a comprehensive course in land survey for 8 months, while the Estate and Planning streams attend a shorter course. Thereafter, the Surveying Assistants (Engineering) are attached to various functional survey sections for field and practical experience for a period of 12 months before being posted to one of the engineering offices for further in-service training. Surveying Assistants (Land, Estate and Planning) do the whole of their in-service training in Crown Lands and Survey Office. At the end of 31 years, Surveying Assistants of the four streams sit for a promotion examination and, subject to passing this and satisfactory service, are promoted to Class II at the end of four years.
7.63 Officers recruited in the Surveying Assistant grades, although not pupils, are, subject to holding the necessary academic qualifica- tions, able to take professional examinations. In the 1972 Royal Institu- tion of Chartered Surveyors examinations (Land Surveying Division), two Surveying Assistants (Engineering) passed the Intermediate and
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