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where a junior officer is required to discharge the duties ordinarily performed by an officer at the hand of the
service and I would make it a rule that an officer who is
entrusted with the duties of one of the posts now in Class I
should, if his salary is less than $12,000 a year, be allow-
-ad to receive an additional increment while so acting, or two additional increments if his actual salary is less than
89,000. Similarly an additional temporary increment might be
allowed to an officer who is acting as the head of a
department (not being one of the departments of which the
head is now in Class I) if his substantive salary is less
than 89,000.
9. The one serious objection that I see to
the adoption of the scheme which I suggest is the probability
that it will be more expensive than a system of division
into classes, as there may be a large number of officers at one time at or near the maximum salary. But such a position would almost certainly be offset at a slightly later period by there being a large number of officers low down on the scale, and in any case it should be possible by giving care- -ful attention to the question of the number of cadets to be appointed in any one year to reduce such fluctuations to a minimum and to ensure that the salaries of officers of the Cadet Service would be fairly evenly distributed along the
whole scale.
10.
Turning now to individual appointments, it will be observed that the Commission classify as 'Special' the posts of Colonial Secretary, Chief Justice, Puime Judge and Attorney-General and suggest that salaries of £2,200, £3,000, £1,800 and £2,000 respectively should be assigned to them. While fully recognizing the importance of these posts and the necessity of assigning adequate salaries to the holders, I am of opinion that the Commission's suggestions are unduly generous having regard to the
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