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CIVIL SERVICE'S BENEFITS Increases Granted On Final Approval Recommendations Of Commission
In recommending that the revised salary scales in the Government Service should be introduced with retrospective effect to Jan. 1, 1947, the Commission says that these ⠀⠀ retrospective benefits should only be granted to officers in the Service when final approval of the pro- posals is announced.
were
The Commission does recom† (vii). Notwithstanding the above mend that officers who
rules, the Government should have the right to deal on it thinks it with any individual спле which might, if the above rules were applied,
tables in
give rise to an anomaly.
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London. Jan. 7.
A Holloway Prison officer was last night overpower- c8 by 11 Borstalgiris, gagged and lied to a chair while the girls escaped with ntolen keys. They were re- captured three hours later after one girl had given the alarm.
The 11 girls are awaiting allocation to Borstal · in- stitutions. Reuter.
or more years on the old scale) will have to be adopted. It will probably be necessary for ma- chinery to be set up to deal with the various which are bound to arise from the which we have greatly reduced new salarica scheme in previous diversities in scales.
HEARING BEGINS
MANILA, JAN, §. THE DANISH CONSUL, (- GUS- |TAV HALBERO, SAID TODAY [THAT TWO OFFICERS AND 15 MEN OF THE ILL-FATED DANISH MOTORSHIP KINA TESTIFIED AT AN ALL-DAY HEARING AT THE CONSULATE YESTERDAY.
He added that he was unable to issue any statement to the press at this time as to the find-
ings.
problema Mr. Halberg, who is also Manila manager of the East the King, aaid the hearing was Asiatle Company, agents for
"only the preliminary matter of gathering statements from the crew."
Special Measures
may, on
"These statements will be forwarded to the Danish Gov- ernment in Copenhagen, where formal maritime hearing will be held," Mr. Halberg snid.--. United PresЯ.
Poisoning At Party
in the Colony on duty on 1st January, 1947 and who have subsequently died, retired in the normal course of events or been invalided should have their anlaries, death gratuities, gratuities or pensions recalcul uited as if they had been on the
Regrading revised scales at the time of In certain casen where we death, invaliding or retirement. have proposed complete reor
Although we have worked ganisation or a radical regrad- out delailed tables to show howing or where officers have been various classes of officers at placed in a grade to which hit- various Incremental points on herto promotions have been existing acales should be allow-made to All vacancies but It is possible that in certain cd to convert to the new scales, which in the new scheme is in, enses the new salary scales will we have not included these cluded in a time scale, or where result in a temporary reduction of emoluments exclusive of high we consider that the detalls ofly shortened or lengthened, the cost of living allowance. Simi- conversion can be more easily rules suggested above may not larly, certain officers worked out when final approval be appropriate. We have, for transfer to the new acales find | of the new scales has been re-example,
prepared tentative that their pensionable emolu- ceived.
drafts of a special conversionments would be temporarily re- We recommend however that scheme for the Clerical Service duced. We recommend that where the old and the new and another for the Police In-Government should consider on scales are of comparable length, spectorate. It is probable that their merits any such Сакса the following rules should be similar schemes will have to be which may arise and accord ulopted :-
devised to ensure equitable such treatment as may be deem- (1) Where an officer on an treatment where some officers ed equitable.
incremental seale has the as in the Public Works Depart necessary qualifications ment are in the middle or to- Election To Transfer to entitle him to convert wards the end of a long scale We recommend that serving arising out of the deaths by fully to the new scale and others are at the begin-officers should be allowed to arsenic poisoning of five Euro. appropriate to his grade, ning of a shorter sente intro- exercise an option whether to pean adults and four children and has passed all the duced since 1937. A special retain their existing salaries at a birthday party in Komaat!- prescribed Intervenfagacherbe will have to be drawn and terms
and conditions of poort last July. eficiency bars, he shall up for certain officers in the service or to transfer to the
During the examination of the receive the same number Education Department at pre- new scales under the revised alleged murder charges last to the sent on a long time scale who conditions of service which we year, Minty was declared insane limit in the will have to transfer to a very have proposed. In our opinion but four days ago the Supreme new scale as he has al-much shorter scale in future. this option should be exercised Court in Pretoria granted an ready received in his old fn such cases it is probable that in writing by all officers con the Pretoria mental hospital to application to remove him from instead of a straight conversión | cerned nut inter than 31st
Barberton Gool. according to length of service | March, 1948 A possible ex- which would result in the ma- tension might be granted to jority of officers in a particular officers who are on leave at the category being placed on the date of the publication of the maximum of the new scale, a revised salaries scheme. In aystem of awarding one inere ment on the new scale for two
of increments maximum
scale.
the
Not Less (i) Where an officer has not
necessary qualifiee tions which it is contem- plated that an officer in his grade should in fu- ture on entry possess or obtain subsequently to entry, the Government should exercise its dis- cretion whether the same number of increments f he has earned in his old scule should be ac- corded him up to the maximum limit in his flew acale, provided of
Barberton, Transvial, Jan. 8.
Saleh Minty, a 22-year-old Indian shop assistant, Way formally discharged here today, examination: at a preparatory
He was instructed to report was discharged on instructions to the police station today and from the Attorney General after
their case a further extension application by the publie pro. of three months might be given.
secutor. Reuter.
Rangoon
Sikhs Slaughtered Ceremony
In Temple Massacre
Karachi, Jan. 7.
course that no officer Some 70 Sikh men, women and children were kill-
should receive less basic pay than he receives at present when it is taken into consideration that
the new basic incorpor- ates elements for rent, depreciation in the value
ed today when a Moslem crowd attacked a Sikh temple in which 250 Sikhs from Upper Sind were quartered for transit after evacua- tion.
Troops were rushed to deal through the city, in open with the disturbanced us the trucks", he said.
like trouble spread
flame
"They should not have done
of money; and in some throughout the city which angry that". instances other allow-crowds looting Hindquarters.
ancca. (i) Rules (1) and (il) should
Rangoon, Jan. 7. Sao Shwe Thaik, the first Presi
of
Exce Burma, today ceremoniously planted a holy sapling presented by Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the Indian special envay to the in- dependence celebrations in the grounds of Rangoon's golden-domed Shire Dagon Pagoda,
the The sapling, brought from holy Bodhi tree under which Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, Kained enlightenment 25 centuries agd, was sprinkled with holy water brought from the Ganger,
in
The sapling came from Buddha Gaya, Bihar Province, and the ceremony
aya, the Buddhist holy shrine was attended
by leading Burmese
Traffle throughout the capital The temple was get on fire after
disrupted for some time the slaughter.
Armed was police picketed the
and while all traffic through the uf-statesmen, foreign envoys and Bud
fected arens ceased.-Reuter. evacuated the survivors,
area
apply also in cases where the new scale is alightly shorter than the present By late afternoon, the diatur. scale, provided of course bances appeared to be' generally that the maximum of the under control.
new scale cannot be ex- Police trucks, with ceeded.
loud
speakers, moved through the
(iv) Where an officer is on streets announcing 4 curfew
the maximum salary of throughout the city.
on Incremental scale and is transferred to ́an 'in-stack occurred, Was tlmost cremental scale which within a stone's throw of the has more incremental authorities by surprise and the stops than his existing refugees were slaughtered in scale, he may, if duly their sanctuary before the police qualified, receive one" fir-could be mobilised.
The temple, where the initial
crement In the new acale Armed police were evacuating for each year which her the surviors as the Interior of has spent on the max the temple was an Inferno, with mum of his previous flames licking heaps of blood: acale, subject of course stained bodies. to the maximum of the new scale.
Fixed Salaries
(v) An officer op a fixed
the dust of the compound, the bodies lay where they had fallen amid the survivors, 100 athened by the shock even
to
and
Excited Growdź basic salary shall trans- Everywbare through the clly fer to a corresponding excited: crowda were gathering fixed basic salary "if such in the streets. Piles of ahat: a fixed basic salary, has tered glass and people runhing been assigned to his post with bundles of clothes under the new 'scheine ploces of furniture showed but where an' increinent. | where the looting: was going:om al scale has been prdi. "In the midst of the excite vided, he shall be ghen ment. Khan Bahadur Moham: ane Increment on the med, the Prime Minister? #7671 now scale for every year, Blöd, persona 1ƒ arrested: a look- he has served on his pre-te who was rinking: off with a fb08“fined salaryza Amail' bundle of aukalösted (vi) In all the above, cases from a Hlode house! Hearby.
expatriation pay should They have been moving be added in: "the evans those pople (the Bikh svaćileen y that'the officer, coricernóð
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