CONFIDENTIAL
33.
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On the face of it this plan calls for the immediate recruitment of eight Principal Information Officers and eleven Senior Information Officers who, together with the one of each already established would be disposed of as follows: one of each to the seven departmental units and two Principals and five seniors to staff the central press office.
34.
This number could be reduced if a number of executive and administrative officers were introduced into the system. Initially the number would have to be small because such officers without professional training could not work alone without supervision or a professional colleague.
35.
There would be a further possible reduction if some of the present press room Information Officers were fit to take up higher grade posts in either the central or departmental units.
36.
It is clearly not possible on such a sketchy basis to anti- cipate the total cost of such an establishment and offer a comparison with the present establishment. Of course it is bigger because it is intended to produce a large expansion of public information and publicity work. At the same time it is economical in that properly qualified people will certainly produce more results per dollar of their salary. Onc properly qualified Senior Information Officer paid $3310 - 3870 a month can turn out more productive information material than two Assistant Information Officers Class I paid $1160 - 2135 a month cach. This is not just because the more highly paid and qualified men write faster and more effectively, which they do, but because the jounior men experience mor、 difficulty obtaining the material from senior officers in other departments.
37.
On the basis of this plan the pattern of information services and its staff would be something like this:
Information Secretary
Deputy Information Secretary
Notes formerly D.I.S.
formerly D.D.I.S.
(These two officers would be responsible for advising the Governor and Government on public information and publicity policy and for overall administration and guidance of the work of departmental public information and publicity policy)
CENTRAL PRESS UNIT
2 P.1.0.'s
5
S.I.O.'s
6 1.0.'s
10 A.1.0.'s I
4 A.1.0.'s II)
May be reduced by posting
an promotion as suggested
in para. 29.
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