156. The Department also received an informal visit from Miss Isobel KELSO, an Executive Officer from the General Register House, Edinburgh, with which the Department has established an interesting and fruitful liaison.
Staff and Organization
157. Such was the pressure of work in the Department that it was necessary to obtain authority by Special Warrant for fourteen additional posts including one Assistant Registrar General (supernumerary) and four Legal Assistants. Mr. I. A. REID, a Scottish Solicitor and Mr. P. JACOBS, an English Solicitor, who joined the Department on the 18th and 26th of April 1962 respectively were welcome accessions to its legal strength, which was thereby increased to nine including the Registrar General, Deputy Registrar General, and Assistant Registrar General, with another officer en route. Nevertheless, there were at the end of the year still six vacancies for legal officers out of the increased establishment of sixteen.
158. Mr. C. M. STEVENS was appointed Acting Assistant Registrar General and Mr. J. A. H. TILLEY was promoted Senior Legal Assistant both with effect from 1st April 1962. Mr. R. H. MUNRO, Deputy Registrar General, and Mr. J. A. H. TILLEY were on vacation leave from 10th May to 26th November 1962 from 4th April to 5th October 1962 respectively. During Mr. MUNRO's leave, Mr. C. M. STEVENS acted as Deputy Registrar General, and Mr. W. HUME as Assistant Registrar General,
159. The weekly meetings of all legal officers instituted in the previous year were continued, and found invaluable both as affording opportunities for discussion of problems and as keeping all officers in touch with current developments. An inter-office intercommunication system was installed in July 1962 linking senior officers with other officers not having telephones of their own, an innovation which has proved very convenient.
160. Mr. POON Sai-wang, G.C.S. Class II, had the honour of being selected for secondment to the Hong Kong Office in London, and was transferred to the Department of Commerce and Industry on 18th February 1963 for preliminary training in his duties. Mr. MAK Pak, the senior Office Attendant in the Department retired on 20th August 1962 after over 35 years faithful Government service, and on the same day was presented by his colleagues with a wrist watch, a standard electric fan, and a handsome pen and pencil set. Ten messengers sat
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