to perform the duties of Asst
Supt of Police, officers who
have entered the service as
Police Probationers will be
eligible for appointment to
the aforesaid post.
By Order of the
Governor.
1907 7 June
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Sterling Salaries of officers.
Submits proposals for dealing
with the question of
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Mr May has not clearly understood the sterling salary question. By introducing the sterling scheme it
was intended to improve the position of officers who were
then drawing single exchange compensation. The sterling salary rates are accordingly higher than the dollar sal-
aries with single compensation. The position was, however,
complicated by the grant, while the sterling scheme was
under discussion, of double exchange compensation which
had the effect of making the dollar salaries higher, in
many cases, than the sterling salaries. It was never
intended to lay down that the sterling salaries should
be equal to these enhanced dollar salaries. The latter were
intended to give an increase - perhaps more in many cases
than was strictly necessary - to the officers then in the
service who had undoubtedly suffered from the low exchange
of those times: the sterling salaries were primarily for
new comers and were intended to avoid to a great extent
the disadvantages incident to the fluctuating dollar.
In considering the question of sterling salaries it is
therefore necessary to put on one side altogether any
comparison with dollar salaries and to consider solely