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well known at home that
it shall not
be able to procure a capable man to fill the
post at all. There is no chance of promotion
unless it is to be Secretary to the Sanitary
Boards at present held by a former Government
Analyst. Mr. Crow, the present Analyst, once
held the acting appointment of
Secretary
while
on leave but on
the last occasion the acting
appointment was
given to
an outsider.
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are
but a
to their pay
in proportion to the difference in their work
and responsibilities. That the prospects of
promotion are
distant ones
and that they are
practically
on duty day and night, always, which occurs
in other Departments of the Service and that their pay
is less than that
of much
less responsible
appointments in the Service whose holders require
long special education to
qualify for their posts
or as in the case
of Cadets have.
I submit therefore for your Lordship's consideration
that the pay of the Analyst and Apothecary should be raised to $200 per mensem with the prospect of promotion to the Secretaryship of the Sanitary Boards should a vacancy occur in that appointment. That the pay of the Assistant
Analyst and Apothecary should be $150 per
mensem rising to $200.
10.
I also desire to bring to your Lordship's notice
that the Medical Department is the only Service whose Officers cannot hold Acting
Appointments in other Departments, that this
Department
can hold
Acting Appointments in their own.
received pay from the Government while qualifying themselves for future appointments.
11. During the last twenty-one years full pay
vacation leave have been
granted to a
Colonial
Surgeon on
Typhoid Fever.
attack of
in the performance
of his duty, 9 months with an
additional month of half pay
leave since 1886 that is the only leave under
present conditions he has been able to obtain.
The Officer holding the post of Superintendent
of...