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I have prepared two statements which I beg to attach
showing the present rate of salaries and the salaries which I propose should
be paid to the staff. If these statements be compared it will be seen that my
proposals would now only entail an increase of $480 above the amount voted on
account of personal emoluments for the present year and that the difference
between the ultimate cost of the present and the proposed scales of pay when
the full increments are paid is only $84.
I have proposed that trained warders engaged
in England should receive an increase of pay for the first five years of
their service but if the proposed scale of pay for men engaged locally be recruit
adopted it might be possible to recreoit the staff entirely locally and so
save the cost of passages and increments.
The salaries proposed for European warders are
the same as those paid to the prison staff at Singapore. The pay suggested
for the Indian staff might seem somewhat high but it is essential that trust - ›
worthy men should be obtained to perform duties in a prison, otherwise they
will traffic with prisoners which I understand
keys being abolished in this gaol sometime ago.
was the cause of native turn-
I recommend that the European clerk's salary
should be raised to $1200 per annum on account of his having to perform the
duties of storekeeper in addition to his other work. There is a ggod deal of
responsibility attached to the office, the present holder of which is in every
respect deserving of an uncrease of salary.
I also beg to recommend that the personal
allowance of $24 per annum now allowed to the messenger should be increased
to $36 per annum. This man has 28 years service and has discharged his duties
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