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Assistant in any Pharmacy of repute
in this Colony is paid
wery
much better
we at the
than either of these Officers. Every Assistant Analyst we have had has left. end of his three years agreement to fill a better paid appointment out
of
the Service
and the present incumbent the third we have had will in all probability do this
kame unless the value
of
his
appointment is improved. The pay of both these appoint
ments
is in
my
opinion too small for any
man who has had to
go through.
a CourtL
at least three years special training (the present incumbent's were five years) and pass three examinations to obtain ~
the necessary diplomas qualifying them for the appointment. Every officer
we have
had holding these appointments have been
thoroughly
retirement
capable men and their
Lvov
a loss to the Government.
Under the present circumstances the
appointment.
of
Assistant Analyst will
become so well known at home that
we shall not be able to procure a
*
capable man to fill the post at all. There is no chance of promotion unles
it is to be Secretary to the Sanitary Board : at present held by
former Government Analyst. My Crow the present Analyst has once held the Acting Appointment of Secretary while the present incumbent,
long
was away
orr
leave but on
the Cast
occasion the acting appointment was
I submit therefores;
to
OLIV
outsider.
given for your Lordship's consideration that the pay of the Government Analyst and. Apothecary should be raised to $200 per mensem with the prospect of promotion, to the Secretaryship of the Sanitary Board
should a
vacancy
occur in that
appointment. That the pay of the Assistant. Analyst and Apothecary should be $150
per mensen
10.
臂
notice in vie
of
rising to $170. I also desire to
bring
the proposals.
to
your
Lordship's
Jam
about to make that the Medical Department
is the only one in the Service whose Officers cannot hold Acting Appointments
capable
in