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of £10. The salaries for Classes II and III might remain as approved. You have already agreed to officers with exceptional qualifications or experience being appointed to positions on the scale of Class III above the minimum; and
I consider that it will also be desirable for the Governor
to be given discretion to advance deserving officers in Class III by the grant of special increments, as otherwise the scale of salary will not be sufficient to retain the more valuable officers in the face of outside competition
for their services. For Probationers I should prefer to substitute for the scale already approved a scale of $900 rising by annual increments of $150 to $1500 per annum.
The numbers which I propose for the
7.
establishment of the classes are:-
Class I
8 Officers.
Class II
10 Officers.
Class III
13 Officers.
3 Officers.
8.
Probationers
A list is given showing what posts may be
regarded as Special Appointments, and how it is proposed to group existing appointments in the new Classes.
One intended advantage of the scheme is to
enable the most deserving officer in a lower class to be promoted when a vacancy occurs without necessarily moving him to another post. This involves classification of individual officers rather than of posts, though the more important posts would in practice be filled by officers in
the higher classes. Officers will in future be appointed to a class in the scheme of the Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff and will be liable to serve in any post in the scheme to which it may appear to be in beat interests of Government to appoint them.
9. The grouping of the existing officers presents difficulties owing to the varying scales of pay, and the varying conditions of service, as, for example, the right of free quarters which some of the officers at present
enjoy
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