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administration of post and telegraph, as well as the construction of highways and waterways as
aforementioned, with three Departments: Royal Railway Department, Post and Telegraph Department,

and the Department of Ways.
For provincial public works, which are now supervised by Public Works Commissioners,

each Monthon shall choose at least one person knowledgeable in engineering, to plan and give
recommendations on all public works matters as well as the maintenance of highways and waterways
in all provinces of each Monthon, the implementation of which shall follow.

With this re-organization, the present name of the Ministry, Public Works, does no longer fit
with its future scope of work. Therefore the Ministry of Public Works shall be renamed the Ministry

of Communications since April 1, 1912.
This proclamation is given on March 27, 1912, on the 503rd day of this present reign.

Subsequently, King Vajiravudh decided Department were rounded up, put into detention

that as the Department of Ways was responsible centers, and some were even forced to leave
with ever more responsibility, the Chief of the the government service. On July 30, 1917, King

Department should be elevated in rank into the Vajiravudh ordered the merging of the Department
Director, accompanied by an adivisor. Accordingly, of Ways and the Royal Railway Department, so

on April 13, 1912, the king granted Mom Anurutthewa that engineers could be shared between the two
(M.R. Saiyut Sanitwongse) as the first Director of departments.

the Department of Ways. Mr Carlo Allegri, Chief After sixteen years, on June 1, 1933,
Engineer of the Public Works Department, became King Prajadhipok ordered the dissolution of the

the Advisor to the Department of Ways. Department of Ways, transforming it into the Civil
On September 30, 1914, all works on Engineering Section, Department of the City,

waterways were transferred from the Department of Ministry of the Interior, according to the Royal
Ways, Ministry of Communications to the Ministry of Decree on Re-Organizing the Departments of the

Agriculture, henceforth known as the Department of Ministry of the Interior, B.E.2476. During that time,
Irrigation. Only the Department of Ways remained, Phra Phisan Sukhumvit (Prasop Sukhum) was the

under the supervision of the Chief. Director of the Department of the City.
From July 28, 1914 to November 11, 1918, On April 1, 1934, the Civil Engineering

the world became embroiled with the First World Section was renamed Ways Section, under the
War. After being neutral for some years, on July Department of Public and Municipal Works,

22, 1917, Siam declared war with Germany and Ministry of the Interior, after the Act on Transferring
the Austro-Hungarian Empire. German engineers Responsibility of Constructing and Maintaining

of the Department of Ways and the Royal Railway Highways, B.E.2477. During this time, Phra Phisan

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