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throughout the Schools of the Colony have added to
the responsibilities of the Inspector of Schools.
Recent correspondence on the
subject of salaries attaching to Cadet Appointments has
made it plain that in Your Lordship's opinion the Sterling
Salaries are generally speaking a sufficient remuneration,
and in considering what increase might justifiably be made
in the salary of the Inspector of Schools I have not taken
the higher dollar rate into account.
5.
My proposal is that the salary
of the Director of Education should be at the rate of
£720 rising to £810 per annum by triennial increments of
£45, which rate is the equivalent of the dollar salary now
attached to the post of Inspector of Schools. Any Officer
paid in dollars who may hold or act in the appointment
would continue to draw the present dollar salary of the
Inspector of Schools; except that in the case of Mr. B. A.
Irving, the present Inspector of Schools,
recommend the
grant of a personal non-pensionable allowance of $300 per
annum without exchange compensation. Mr. Irving has
hitherto drawn this allowance in his capacity of Independ-
-ent Examiner of Queen's College and the abolition of this
examination, which will no longer be necessary, will
effect