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DR. LEE:--When we have more multi-storey resettlement buildings erected in this area, there will be bound to be more refuse collected from them.
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS:-Kwun Tong was chosen as the ideal centre for incineration. We have to balance all the other problems.
(18) DR. R. H. S. LEE asked the following question : —
Has Government accepted the Library Select Committee's recommendation for the salary scale of the staff of the City Hall Library? If it has, what will be the salary of the Library Adviser when the post is held by a local man of the same experience and qualification as an expatriate?
THE CHAIRMAN replied as follows:-
The answer to the first part of your question, Sir, is in the negative; the Library Select Committee's recommendations have been examined carefully by Government and have been modified, having regard to the library staff's duties, responsibilities, and qualifications for appointment, and internal comparison with other grades in the public service.
As regards the second part of your question, Government at present envisages that when the library services of Hong Kong are fully functional and when all the new posts in the establishment have been filled, the post of Library Adviser will lapse. On the other hand, should it prove essential to retain this post and should a qualified local man be available for recruitment, he will be appointed on the same salary scale as an expatriate applicant.
DR. LEE:-Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I hope your reply will be recorded for future reference.
(19) DR. R. H. S. LEE asked the following question:-
When will Cambridge Court be ready to serve as a temporary Kowloon Library? Will there be enough senior library staff available to open it without lowering the present standard of the City Hall Library? In view of the likely difficulty in filling all the senior posts of the Library, what action is being taken to overcome it?
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THE CHAIRMAN replied as follows:
Government has agreed in principle to rent a floor of Cambridge Court for use as a temporary library, but a final decision is not to be taken until the cost of alterations is known and has been approved by the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council.
Building work on the floor in question is due to be completed in the spring of next year but several more months will be needed for the installation of air-conditioning, for interior decoration and general preparation before the Library service could function. The forecast at this stage, assuming the floor is leased, is that the Kowloon Library will be ready for public use in the autumn of next year.
Government is being asked to approve the provision of staff including senior posts for the operation of the Kowloon library, in addition to the City Hall Library staff. Provided all the posts can be filled with suitably qualified persons, there should be no danger of lowering the present standard of the City Hall Library. Recruitment to the senior posts will be undertaken overseas if local recruitment, which will start as soon as possible, is not successful. Recruitment to other posts will take place locally and no undue difficulty is anticipated over this.
A training programme for junior officers to obtain qualifications of the Library Association is under way. One officer is now in the United Kingdom taking such a course and two more officers are expected to undergo similar courses in the United Kingdom next year. These officers will become eligible, on completion of the course, for senior appointments.
(20) MR. LI YIU-BOR asked the following question :-
On two previous occasions I raised the question of installing public telephone booths in resettlement estates because I felt then, as I feel now, that they serve a very useful purpose. Will the Chairman inform this Council how many of our new estates have been provided with public telephones?
THE COMMISSIONER FOR RESETTLEMENT replied as follows:
Members may recall that the question of providing public call boxes in estates was last raised in February 1963, when
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DR. LEE:--When we have more multi-storey resettlement buildings erected in this area, there will be bound to be more refuse collected from them.
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS:-Kwun Tong was chosen as the ideal centre for incineration. We have to balance all the other problems.
(18) DR. R. H. S. LEE asked the following question : —
Has Government accepted the Library Select Committee's recommendation for the salary scale of the staff of the City Hall Library? If it has, what will be the salary of the Library Adviser when the post is held by a local man of the same experience and qualification as an expatriate?
THE CHAIRMAN replied as follows:-
The answer to the first part of your question, Sir, is in the negative; the Library Select Committee's recommenda- tions have been examined carefully by Government and have been modified, having regard to the library staff's duties, responsibilities, and qualifications for appointment, and internal comparison with other grades in the public service.
As regards the second part of your question, Government at present envisages that when the library services of Hong Kong are fully functional and when all the new posts in the establishment have been filled, the post of Library Adviser will lapse. On the other hand, should it prove essential to retain this post and should a qualified local man be available for recruitment, he will be appointed on the same salary scale as an expatriate applicant.
DR. LEE:-Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I hope your reply will be recorded for future reference.
(19) DR. R. H. S. LEE asked the following question:-
When will Cambridge Court be ready to serve as a temporary Kowloon Library? Will there be enough senior library staff available to open it without lowering the present standard of the City Hall Library? In view of the likely difficulty in filling all the senior posts of the Library, what action is being taken to overcome it?
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THE CHAIRMAN replied as follows:
Government has agreed in principle to rent a floor of Cam- bridge Court for use as a temporary library, but a final decision is not to be taken until the cost of alterations is known and has been approved by the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council.
Building work on the floor in question is due to be completed in the spring of next year but several more months will be needed for the installation of air-conditioning, for interior decoration and general preparation before the Library service could function. The forecast at this stage, assuming the floor is leased, is that the Kowloon Library will be ready for public use in the autumn of next year.
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Government is being asked to approve the provision of staff including senior posts for the operation of the Kowloon library, in addition to the City Hall Library staff. vided all the posts can be filled with suitably qualified persons, there should be no danger of lowering the present standard of the City Hall Library. Recruitment to the senior posts will be undertaken overseas if local recruitment, which will start as soon as possible, is not successful. Recruitment to other posts will take place locally and no undue difficulty is anticipated over this.
A training programme for junior officers to obtain qualifica- tions of the Library Association is under way. One officer is now in the United Kingdom taking such a course and two more officers are expected to undergo similar courses in the United Kingdom next year. These officers will become eligible, on completion of the course, for senior appointments.
(20) MR. LI YIU-BOR asked the following question :-
On two previous occasions I raised the question of installing public telephone booths in resettlement estates because I felt then, as I feel now, that they serve a very useful purpose. Will the Chairman inform this Council how many of our new
estates have been provided with public telephones?
THE COMMISSIONER FOR RESETTLEMENT replied as follows:
Members may recall that the question of providing public call boxes in estates was last raised in February 1963, when
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