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last April with its enclosures advocating that Subordinate
European Officers in the Service of the Colony should
suffer a deduction of 21% per annum from their salaries and
that after 5 years and three months' service, they should
be granted 9 months' half-pay leave with a maximum of 34
free passages, upon the distinct understanding that,
if
this privilege is granted, no acting pay or distribution
of salaries would be permitted. It should be explained
that acting appointments in the Subordinate ranks of the
Civil Service are rarely made and that distribution of
salaries is not frequent.
3.
Your Lordship will observe that
Mr. Messer calculated that on the basis of the Subordinate
Establishment in November, 1908, the cost of the scheme to
Goverment after deducting 24% of the Officers' salaries
would be nil and that the deduction would only amount to
£446 5 8. In their report of 5th. April, the Committee
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notice the possibility of earlier marriages being en-
-couraged by the adoption of the scheme, in which case
the cost would be increased and a larger deduction would
have to be made.
It is probable that this anticipat-
-ion is well founded, but I do not anticipate that the cast
would