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Treasurer,
as Chief Accounting Officer of the
Government, is by Colonial Regulations required to
exercise.
It is to be noted that although no member
of the Committee was a Cadet their recommendation was
not that the post of Treasurer should cease to be
held by a Cadet.
I there fore venture to suggest the follow-
ing scheme which is based on the assumption (1) that
the financial expert who is to be now selected to be
Deputy Treasurer at a salary ( 200 per annum) which
is equivalent to the maximum of the Cadets Scale
below Class I should on Mr Messer's retirement be
appointed Treasurer; and (2) that if, in spite of
Mr. Messer's successor, the post of Treasurer were
still to be regarded as normally a Class 1 cadet
post, we should find ourselves back in the old
position of a Cadet without adequate financial and
accounting experience being in charge of the Treasury,
and should again have to appoint a technical Deputy the
Treasurer with or without subsequent reversion to
er
the Treasuryзhip
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My suggestion is that on Mr Messer's
retirement the Deputy Treasurer should be given the
title of Treasurer without increase in salary the
post to be separated from the Cadet Service, and to
be filled always by a trained financial officer.
The post of Deputy Treasurer would lapse. At the
same time, there should be created the appointment
of Financial Secretary to the Government in Class I
of the Cadet Service. The duties of the Treasurer
would