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Sew Amahs are much more skilled workers than wash amahs and should be paid the same salary as Ward Amahs.
Paragraphs 139 to 142. Sanitary Department.
Paragraph 139.-The salary recommended for the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon is for a post without private practice and in as much as the present holder will be entitled by reason of the shortened range of the new scale to its maximum of £1,200 as against his present £825 it is considered that he should forgo the allow- ance he now receives for the loss of a private practice which was always of a rather nebulous nature.
Paragraph 140. It is recommended that the present system of bonus increments to Inspectors for possession of certain technical and linguistic qualifications shall be continued.
Paragraph 142. The Commissioners were misinformed as to the present emolu- ments of the Dust Station Foreman. He already receives a rent allowance of $48 per annum, and a salary of $324 to $384 by $12 annually with rent allowance is now recommended.
Paragraph 143-145. Botanical & Forestry Department.
While satisfactory material for training into gardeners and foresters may be ob- tainable at $156 per annum, the increases (four triennial increments of $12 each) allotted in the Report are insufficient to retain men with any real aptitude for the class of work, the outside market rate for this service being considerably better. It is therefore recommended that the scales of these employees shall be $156 to $228 by two increments of $24 each after three and six years and two of $12 each after nine and twelve years.
Paragraphs 146-152. Education Department.
Paragraph 149. It has been ascertained that the Commissioners were under a misapprehension regarding the length of the University course for graduate teachers (non-British). Had it been three years, as they understood it to be, the salary of a teacher in this class would have been always ahead by $150 per annum of that drawn by a non-graduate teacher entering the service at the same time, until both came to a stop at the maximum. The course is, however, a four year one, and, owing to the two marriage increments granted to the non-graduate teachers, their salary and that of the graduates as awarded by the Report, will coincide as early as the eighth year of service. In order, therefore, to maintain the premium for a University training, it is recommended that the graduate teachers shall receive a double increment ($300) in their seventh year of service.
It will be convenient to include here recommendations on a matter not dealt with by the Commission, namely, the fees paid to lecturers at the Technical Institute, many of whom are Government officers. It is proposed, in order to keep in line with the general increases awarded to Educational Staff to raise the rates for these ser- vices as follows:-
For the English side:-
Present rate $4 to $6 per hour.
Proposed,, $7 to $8 per hour.
according to average attendance.
For the Vernacular side ::
Present rate $2 to $3 per hour. Proposed $4 per hour.
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An additional supervisor at King's College at a salary of $400 per annum is also recommended as well as an increase in the remuneration of the Supervisor of Vernacular classes from $240 to $400 per annum and of allowance to the Technical Institute Clerk from $360 to $600 p.a The estimated cost of these adjustments is $6,421 per annum.