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numbers in Classes IV and V correspondingly reduced. It was found that promotion to the higher classes was unduly
slow, and that efficiency was liable to be affected in
consequence, and it is proposed to work up gradually each
year until a fixed ratio between the numbers in each class
has been reached. The clerical staff in the Post Office
will also be worked to the same proportions.
Additional posts are one Class IV Clerk for the
Malarial Research Officer, to whom I will refer when dealing with the Mcdical Department and four Class VI Clerks for
the Colonial Secretary's Office, Education and Prisons
Departments.
Head 7 Treasury.
The post of Assistant Crown Solicitor for this
An Assistant Crown
office is for the present in abeyance.
Solicitor has been at the Treasury since November of last
year and has done very good work in getting the system into
working order, and it is hoped that next year it will be
possible for an Assistant Crown Solicitor from the Crown
Solicitor's Office spending half his time at the Treasury
to cope with the work. It may be necessary in more flourish-
ing times to consider the restoration of this post.
Head 11 Post Office.
The increase is due almost entirely to the transfer
of provision for the clerical staff from Head 4 Junior
Clerical Service.
Head 12- Imports and Exports Department.
Under personal emoluments provision is made for
one more European Revenue Officer. The inadequacy of the
pre
resent staff, which does not allow for an officer to be
detailed exclusively for ship searching, has been aggravated
by
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