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inspector grade I should be subject to the passing of an efficiency bar, one We condition of which should be the obtaining of a diploma in social science. recommend efficiency bars in the scale for labour inspectors grade I at $7,200 and $9,600 per annum. We have proposed for the Lady Assistant Labour Officer (whose title should be changed to Woman Labour Officer) a scale similar to that of a mistress in the Education Department. We recommend that female labour inspectors grade II should be on the same scale as uncertificated women teachers until they obtain a diploma in social science and that thereafter they should be placed on the scale for certificated women teachers. If in the future it is considered necessary to recruit candidates with University degrees and a special science diploma as women assistant labour officers, we recommend that the scale for assistant mistresses should apply.
INLAND REVENUE DEPARTMENT
146. We understand that the creation of a post of Assistant Commissioner of Inland Revenue has received Government approval and we have recommended a salary accordingly. We have accorded to assistant assessors, to the Accountant and to assessors grade II the same rates of pay as for the executive grade I and grade II officers. We consider that the taxation officers should be placed on the clerical scale.
SANITARY DEPARTMENT
147. We recommend the abolition of the posts of grade IV foremen. For the present holders of these posts we have recommended the salary scale of semi-skilled workmen.
DEVELOPMENT SECRETARIAT
148. We have made no specific recommendation for the salary of the Secretary of Development since we have been unable to foresee the future scope of this officer's duties and responsibilities or to determine to what extent his present salary was fixed in relation to post war conditions. In the circumstances we express no opinion as to the adequacy of his present salary. We have also made no recommendation for the salary of the Director of Fisheries, a post which we understand has not yet been filled. The present salary of the Artist has been increased considerably above his pre-war rate and we have made no recommendation for revision. There are other temporary posts created since the reoccupation in the Wholesale Vegetable Market Section and in the Fisheries Department for which we have not recommended revised salaries, but it should not be difficult for Government to assign salaries to those posts in keeping with our general recommendations if it is intended to retain any of these posts on a permanent basis.
149. For agricultural officers we propose entry into the professional and administrative scale at the same point as masters in the Education Department. We consider that there should be a promotion bar between the grades of agri- cultural officer and senior agricultural officer at $16,320 per annum.
We recommend that assistant agricultural officers and agricultural assistants grade I should be required to have suitable University degrees before entry and that they should be placed on the same scale as assistant masters. We recommend that the title of the assistant storeman in the Agricultural Department should be altered to stores attendant and that this officer should be placed in the semi- skilled grade. We recommend that the senior foreman in this Department should be known as a foreman grade II.
150. We understand that the Superintendent of the Fisheries Research Station is a qualified scientific officer and we recommend for him the same scale as for agricultural officers and senior agricultural officers. We recommend a similar scale for the Forestry Officer provided that he holds the recognised professional qualification. In both cases there should be an efficiency bar in the scale between $15,600 per annum and $16,320 per annum. We recommend that there should be two grades of assistant forestry supervisor separated by a promotion bar and that there should be a further promotion bar between assistant supervisor grade I and supervisor. We have placed the Forest Protection Officer on the same level as an assistant supervisor grade I. We suggest that the forestry inspector should be renamed forestry overseer and that new titles should be given to certain of the Forestry foremen in accordance with our general scheme for the grading of foremen. We also recommend that certain titles in the Gardens Department should be altered to conform with our general scheme for the grading of storekeepers and foremen.
151. We propose for the Assistant Co-operatives Officer the salary of executive grade II, General Clerical Service. We suggest that he should be required to pass an efficiency bar of a standard comparable with that required of executive grade I before he proceeds on to the equivalent of the executive grade I scale,