Registrar-Generals-Department-Annual-report-1965-1966 — Page 60

Staff

182. Table II lists the holders, both substantive and acting, of the principal appointments in the Department during the year. Recruitment of legal officers continued to be very difficult, and although the Depart- ment succeeded in recruiting two Legal Assistants on contract-Mr. P. W. MOLE, an English Solicitor, and Mr. J. H. SANDERS, a New Zealand Barrister and Solicitor-two others left during the year. At the end of the year there were seven legal vacancies out of an establish- ment of twenty-three, but for eight months of the year the number of vacancies was as high as ten, or over 43% of the establishment.

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183. The legal officers who left were two Legal Assistants, Mr. H. M. REDDIN on 1st June 1965, and Miss S. J. MCNAB on 6th June 1965, and the Deputy Registrar General, Mr. R. H. MUNRO, on 1st August 1965. Mr. MUNRO was retiring after almost 15

was retiring after almost 15 years in Govern- ment service, of which more than five years were spent in Hong Kong. To mark the occasion the staff entertained Mr. and Mrs. MUNRO to a traditional Chinese dinner on 26th July 1965 and presented them with a handsome Chinese screen of their own choice.

184. Mr. P. JACOBS was promoted Senior Legal Assistant with effect from 1st April 1965.

185. Two of the Department's officers were awarded Government Training Scholarships to enable them to go to London to qualify as solicitors. Mrs. M. POON, Assistant Registrar, Class II, left for London on 2nd July 1965 to begin her course of study, and Mr. Charles LEE Yeh-kwong, Assistant Registrar Class I, followed on 22nd November 1965.

Photographic Section

186. The Department has a Photographic Section equipped with a Photostat machine Model 4 Type P, capable of copying plans, docu- ments, registers, etc. up to four feet by three feet in size, a Verifax copier capable of taking up to six foolscap copies from one matrix, and a Rank Xerox 914 Copier for copying documents, etc. up to 9 inches by 14 inches. The Rank Xerox 914 Copier was installed in December 1964 to supplement the Department's copying equipment and to meet the increasing demand for copy documents etc. During the year 2,627 photostat, 846 Verifax and 15,064 Xerox copies of documents etc., were made. Most of the copies were made for the use of the Department and other Government Departments, but fees were collected

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