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post in that class without additional remuneration
while an officer of a lower class acting in a post
of higher class would receive acting pay in accordance
with General Order 92 (I). The importance of posts
will of course vary as time goes on, and it may be
necessary in subsequent years to move posts from one
class to a class above or below. It may also be desirable to aim at some more systematic arrangement of the numbers in each class, but I should prefer to
postpone consideration of this point, especially as it
seems probable that further increases in the numbers of
posts of this nature will be required in the near future.
7. It will be seen by comparing the enclosed lists
with the staff as shown in the 1928 Staff list that
certain officers of the Post Office, namely the Superintendent of Mails, and three Assistant
Superintendents of Mails, have been omitted. As these
officers perform work which is of a specialised kind and are not readily interchangeable with other officers performing clerical or accounting duties, I consider it more appropriate that they should be provided for under the Post Office Estimates.
8. There is one other point to which I would
refer concerning the method of recruitment of the
Services. While it is desirable that the officers of the Service should as a rule be European, the way should be kept open for the transfers to the Service of Eurasian officers from the Special Class of the
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