Engineering (a) Civil Engineering.
(b) Highway Construction and Traffic Engineering.
(c)
Electrical and Mechanical Engineering.
Railway Engineering including the Mass Transit Studies,
(d)
Land
(a)
The disposal of Crown Land.
(b)
The acquisition of land for public purposes.
Water
(c) Land Surveying.
(d) Town Planning.
(a) The design and construction of traditional impounding
and purification works together with desalination plants and the distribution and sale of fresh and sea water.
1.23 The organisation chart on page (vii) shows the division of the Department into a Headquarters, eight Offices, the New Territories Development Department and the Mass Transit Department. The object of the organisation is to decentralize wherever possible so that day-to-day decisions on virtually all matters, other than departmental policy and the programming of future projects, can be made by Offices. Headquarters concerns itself with departmental policy, future works programmes and the co-ordination of the needs of Offices. To provide this co-ordination, weekly meetings are held at which Headquarters and Office representatives consider matters affecting land and development. Very close contacts are maintained between P.W.D. Headquarters and the Colonial Secretariat.
1.24
THE EFFECT OF VACANCIES ON PRODUCTIVE EFFICIENCY
All Offices of the Department operated well below strength during the year under review both at the professional/assistant professional level and in the technical grades. Buildings Ordinance Office continues to be the most affected, being 48% and 46% below approved establishment in building surveying and structural engineering staff respectively although these figures are lower than for the previous year. In other Offices the deficiency ranges from 10% to 25% for professional/assistant professional posts and from 6% to 50% for technical staff.
1.25 It was possible to re-phase a number of projects to accord with financial restraint and in such cases the effect of staff deficiencies was less severe, however, the general effect of vacancies involved a reduction in the workload which could be undertaken within the Offices and necessitated the employment of consultants and private firms.
1.26
STAFF
The total staff numbered more than 13,900 of whom 985 were professional or assistant professional officers. Occupants of superscale posts, distribution of staff and rates of pay of artisans, labourers and apprentices are given in Appendices A, B and C respectively.
Engineering (a) Civil Engineering.
(b) Highway Construction and Traffic Engineering.
(c)
Electrical and Mechanical Engineering.
Railway Engineering including the Mass Transit Studies,
(d)
Land
(a)
The disposal of Crown Land.
(b)
The acquisition of land for public purposes.
Water
(c) Land Surveying.
(d) Town Planning.
(a) The design and construction of traditional impounding
and purification works together with desalination plants and the distribution and sale of fresh and sea water.
1.23 The organisation chart on page (vii) shows the division of the Department into a Headquarters, eight Offices, the New Territories Development Department and the Mass Transit Department. The object of the organisation is to decentralize wherever possible so that day-to-day decisions on virtually all matters, other than departmental policy and the programming of future projects, can be made by Offices. Headquarters concerns itself with depart- mental policy, future works programmes and the co-ordination of the needs of Offices. To provide this co-ordination, weekly meetings are held at which Headquarters and Office representatives consider matters affecting land and development. Very close contacts are maintained between P.W.D. Headquarters and the Colonial Secretariat.
1.24
THE EFFECT OF VACANCIES ON FRODUCTIVE EFFICIENCY
All Offices of the Department operated well below strength during the year under review both at the professional/assistant professional level and in the technical grades. Buildings Ordinance Office continues to be the most affected, being 48% and 46% below approved establishment in building surveying and structural engineering staff respectively although these figures are lower than for the previous year. In other Offices the deficiency ranges from 10% to 25% for professional/assistant professional posts and from 6% to 50% for technical staff.
1.25 It was possible to re-phase a number of projects to accord with financial restraint and in such cases the effect of staff deficiencies was less severe, however, the general effect of vacancies involved a reduction in the workload which could be undertaken within the Offices and necessitated the employment of consultants and private firms.
1.26
STAFF
The total staff numbered more than 13,900 of whom 985 were pro- fessional or assistant professional officers. Occupants of superscale posts, distribution of staff and rates of pay of artisans, labourers and apprentices are given in Appendices A, B and C respectively.
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