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to above. If you agree, then Mr. Barrington (at West Point Filter Beds and Pumping Station) and Mr. Ross (at Bowen Road) should be given the option of accepting the rate of £240 2270 per annum, with free quarters. Mr. Ross is on a salary of $1,600 with exchange compensation.
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Turning now to the general question, the reasons for which I advocate the grant of the privilege of free quarters to Overseers of the Public Works Department and Inspectors of the Sanitary Department are as follow:-
(a).
It is in many cases absolutely necessary and
in all cases desirable that these officers should live on the spot
or in close proximity to the scene of their work.
(b).
I have found it necessary to recommend to you an increase in pay of 2nd. and 1st. Class Inspectors of Police and Principal Warders in the Gaol which will, if adopted, bring their salaries up to £200 to £220 in the case of the 2nd. Class Inspectors and Principal Warders and to £240 to £260 per annum in the case of the 1st. Class Inspectors. These 3 classes of officers enjoy free quarters. The Overseers and Sanitary Inspectors are men in the same class of life and standing in the Service and it is necessary that their emoluments should be on the same scale
approximately.
If the increase recommended is given to the increase in trdcemento is given, Police and nok to the Overseers and Sanitary Inspectors discontent
will ensue.
(c).
Apart from that consideration I have shown in #078 my Despatch Confidential of the 22nd. November, 1912, that an
increase in the emoluments of the Overseers in the Public Works
Department is necessary and I have recommended it in the case of
the Sanitary Inspectors. I would beg leave to point out that the
present scale of sterling salaries £240 to £270 for 1st. Class
Sanitary Inspectors is a serious reduction in the former Dollar
salaries of $1,800 to £2,040 (== £270 to £304).
(d).
The cheapest form the increases can take is
in
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