Resettlement_Department_Annual_Report_1968-1969 — Page 51

CHAPTER 8

WORKS DIVISION

ORGANIZATION

115. The Works Division's main task is the maintenance (both building and electrical) of resettlement estates, factories, and cottage and licensed areas. The division is organized into six sections under the overall charge of a Senior Maintenance Surveyor seconded from the Public Works Department, assisted on the electrical side by an Assistant Building Services Engineer, also seconded from the Public Works Department, and on the building side by a Senior Resettlement Officer (Technical).

116. The six sections deal respectively with electrical matters; estates; factories; development and maintenance works in cottage and licensed areas, and public works in squatter areas; billing and computing; and general and clerical matters. The sections concerned with factories and cottage/licensed areas are each under the control of a Resettlement Officer (Technical), and the officer responsible for cottage and licensed areas also has under his charge the drawing office and survey teams. The estates section is divided into two geographical districts, each under a Resettlement Officer (Technical). An Area Officer (Technical) is stationed in each estate to supervise the work carried out by the maintenance contractor or the department's own labour force.

ESTATES AND FACTORY SECTIONS

117. The department took over 24 new residential blocks, 12 government estate schools, one estate welfare building and three restaurant buildings from the Public Works Department during the year, making a total of 477 residential blocks, 22 factory blocks, 38 government estate schools and 3 restaurant buildings maintained by the Works Division. Estate buildings suffer from considerable wear and tear because of the high population density, and 887 major and 81,712 minor repair jobs in estates and factories were carried out during the year as against 950 and 78,054 respectively last year. Expenditure on the maintenance of estates and factories amounted to $5,240,000. In addition to day to day maintenance, the division also

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