64,552 Xerox copies of documents etc. were made, as compared with 2,162, 522 and 15,301 respectively in the previous year. Most of the copies were made for the use of the Department and other Government Departments, but fees were collected in respect of copies of public records supplied to the public.
207. The Department also has a Microfilm Unit which undertakes microfilming work for the various registries and sub-registries. During the year the Unit microfilmed 723 new trade mark certificates of registration and 1,722 trade mark alterations. The film records are mounted on aperture cards and can be read by means of an Archival Reader, which projects an enlarged image on to an illuminated screen. With the indexing system now in use any trade mark can be located and projected on to the viewing screen in less than ten seconds. Dry positive photo-copies of 81" by 11" can be produced on a Viewer- Printer in about six seconds. The Unit also completed the microfilming of more than 16,000 pages of births and deaths registration records, and more than 26,000 films were mounted on indexed aperture cards to facilitate searching and viewing. Current pages of registration records are microfilmed by a mobile team which makes regular weekly visits to all registries including those in the New Territories. These microfilm records are deposited in the General Register Office, where all records of births and deaths in the Colony are centralized.
Social and Welfare
208. The Department has a Charitable and Benevolent Fund supported by voluntary contributions from members of the staff of the rank of Class I Clerk and above, but no levy has been made since 1962-63. During the year interest-free loans were made to one member of the staff and at the end of the year the amount of the fund was $1,330.
209. Apart from the usual informal Christmas Eve party held in the Land Office, where members of all other branches met to exchange seasonal greetings, the year was a quiet one for the Department as far as recreational and social activities were concerned.
Acknowledgments
210. At the end of yet another very busy year I have again to record my appreciation of the manner in which officers of all ranks, often under pressure due to shortage of staff coupled with record inflows of
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