MARINE DEPARTMENT LIBRARY
NEW CONDITIONS OF SERVICE AND STAFF TRAINING
145. New conditions of service were approved during the year. The main change was the creation of a combined grade of Student Resettle- ment Assistants and Resettlement Assistants to replace the Area Officer Class II, Area Officer Class I and Area Officer grades. Some adjustment was also made to the salary scale of Assistant Resettlement Officers. As a concomitant to these revised conditions of service, a departmental training unit was set up, which, while awaiting approval of the new conditions of service, ran four two-week full-time induction courses for Area Officers Class II. The present courses, of which four were started during the year each attended by 25 Student Resettlement Assistants, are run on a day-release basis and will last for three years. On success- ful completion of the course Student Resettlement Assistants will be confirmed as Resettlement Assistants. Altogether, 478 departmental officers attended courses during the year. One Senior Resettlement Officer was awarded a merit trip to Britain where he studied slum- clearance and the development of new towns.
WELFARE
146. The Staff Sports & Welfare Association continued to be active during the year with table tennis and football matches being played between departmental teams and against other departments and associa- tions. A 1st and 3rd place were achieved by departmental officers who entered for three events.
147. The Morrison Scholarship Fund, named after the previous Commissioner for Resettlement and under the chairmanship of an Assistant Commissioner, gave grants of $50 each to ten children of minor staff towards the cost of their school fees.
148. The Staff Welfare Committee, under the chairmanship of an Assistant Commissioner, and comprising representatives from each grade or group of grades in the department, met at quarterly intervals to discuss matters relating to conditions of service, uniforms, working equipment, etc.
RESETTLEMENT HEADQUARTERS
149. Because of the rapid expansion of the department over the years, the temporary offices at Ho Man Tin housing the headquarters staff had become increasingly cramped and the bulk of the headquarters
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