631
a sum
certain members of the remain- ing staff. The nett saving that would be effected by the adopt- ion of the above proposal amounts to #1256 after deducting of $1,600 the approximate total of the pensions due to the officers whose services it is proposed to -dispense with.
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approve
Should Your Lordship
the proposed reduction
in the staff, I would request that the officers affected there.
by may
be retired on
pension under
under sections 2 and 3 of clause 12 of the Pension Minute.
There
are
at present
no vacan
cies in other departments to which they could be transferred; and the high rate of salary drawn by them renders it very doubtful whether their re-employment hereafter would be justified on the grounds of economy.
I may add that the
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proposal herein submitted is quite independent of the recom -mendations of the Retrenchment
Committee
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