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salary of £550 per annum, to be reached after eighteen years; the
increments being 210 per annum in the fourth to the eighth years
inclusive, and 215 per annum thereafter.
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4.
The immediate result of the adoption of this
scale of pay would be an increase of salaries to Masters in 1914
of £287 10, and the ultimate result, (so far as it can be fore-
-seen) an increase of $490 to the combined salaries of the seven
senior Masters concerned. Against these increases must be set the
saving effected by the abolition of one mastership, £300 to £460. Further, the scheme will effect a slight economy of acting pay, and
the steady increments may at times prove less expensive than the
too rapid promotion which is caused by a succession of vacancies.
On the promotion of ar. B. Tanner the allowance to the Normal
Master (8900 per annum) will lapse.
6.
A further resulting economy under the heading
Police School might be made upon the adoption of the scheme. I
shall address you separately on that point.
6.
Having regard to the increase of school hours
which the scheme will entail to the Masters, and to the consider-
-able though not extraordinary benefit which they will derive
therefrom at a very trifling cost, if indeed at any cost at all, to
the Colony, I recommend the scheme to your favourable considera-
-tion.
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I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient,
humble servant,
Amay
Governor, &c..