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increases are $247,181 for Miscellaneous Services, $162,401
for the Harbour Department and $185,525 for the Police Department. The morc important decreases and increases are the following:-
Head 2- Cadet Service.
Provision has been made for one more cadet who
will be necessary to keep the cadre up to strength.
Head 3- Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff.
Altogether there are three new posts under this
head. One Class II post for the Registry of the Supreme Court, recent experience has shown that it is necessary to detail an officer specially to look after the accounting
and financial work of the Supreme Court; one Class III post for the Marine Surveyor's Office, this is in connection
with the increase in staff of that office, and is referred to in the sessional paper on that subject; and one more Probationer. Officers with special scales of salary
different from those fixed for the various classes of
the Senior Clerical Service have been grouped in the 1928
Estimates in a different way from the grouping shown in
the 1927 Estimates. This involves no increase other than
the stipulated increments.
Head 4 Junior Clerical Service.
The whole of the postal staff of the Junior
Clerical Service has been transferred fran this head to
Head 11 Post Office. The reason for this is that postal clerks unlike clerks in other departments are not ordinarily transferable, and depend for promotion on vacancies in the
Post Office only, and not in the service as a whole.
The number of posts in the Higher Class and Classes I to III has been slightly increased, and the
numbers
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