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Proposal.
(1)
Government to pay rent allowance
equivalent to rent actually paid, provided Head of Department or Governor is satisfied that it is
reasonable.
(2) Continuance of existing system, to which
he has no objection.
But in view of complaints this
must go:
we have been awaiting a chance to get rid
of it.
(3)
Rates suggested by Commission.
(1)
We can accept (1).
B. Acting Appointments.
The Commission recommend that an officer acting for a superior officer when on leave should receive the salary due to an acting officer under the existing regulations from the date of assuming the duties of the acting appointment.
(2) Mr.Severn suggests that an officer should draw minimum salary of the post in which he is
acting.
Sir E.Stubbe accepts (2) but with exception in case of the Colonial Secretary Chief Justice, Puisne Judge and Attorney-General. He also supports (1) in case of long leave.
I would prefer to adopt the Commission's
proposal and leave it at that.
Detailed Proposals.
Cadetships.
In the new Malayan scheme we have a system
of automatic promotion after the end of the
'probationary period
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from $400 per mensem to
$450 after one year by one increment of $50 and
thence by annual increments of $25 per mensen to $950
(top
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(top of Class II) subject to efficiency bars at each
class.
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Appointments still remain classified, but
it does not follow now that a Class I appointment is
held by a Class X officer.
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$250-
Sir E.Stubbs proposes to go further and
run automatic promotion all the way at $4000
$6000 $500 - $15000, abolishing classes and not
substituting efficiency bare except that at $12000
(the unpassed cadet geta $3000). I am not very
anxious to retain the classes, though they have con-
veniences, but we should have bars every few years.
Say $4000 - 250
500 9000 || $12000. Above this I am inclined to think that
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$6000 ||
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500
promotion should only take place as Class I appointments
fall vacant. The scale for these should be $12,500
to $16,000.
Police Probationers.
Sir E.Stubbs proposes
Probationers $3000
Passed do.
$3500 250 - 8000 = 500
to 11,000.
Captain Superintendent of Police (if not
a cadet) $12000 - 500 15000.
(the rate for Class I of the Cadet service)
He says that as Police Probationers are some
years younger than cadets, he would start on a lower
scale, but it will be noticed that the initial rate is
the same.
This seems undesirable and I would cut it
down in the case of Police Probationers to $2750. We
can accept the principle of continuous increments, and
the scale proposed, subject to the insertion of some
bars: say at $5500 and $8000.
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