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greatly increased.
There was also at the camo time great
building ectivity in the Colony, resulting in a very
considerable increase in the work of assessment, and in 1926 a special officer, Mr. Ring, was seconded to the Treasury from the Public Works Department to carry out the general re-assessment for that year and this officer, as stated by
r. Kennedy-Skipton, remained with the Treasury until after the general re-assessment for 1929, being occupial in the interval with interim-assessments, inspections of vacant praises, rates on which were suspended, and such matters. Dr. Bing is due to return to the Colony in ti.. for the general re-assessment for 1950 and it is proposed that he sholl thereafter remain for duty in the treasury as formerly.
Moreover, owing to the general practice of
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commuting helf-pry leave, when an officer is otherwise eligible for acting pay, the fact that the substantive holder of an office is absent on full pey leave, dood not under the regulations of this ovement constitute any bar to acting pay being drawn by the acting officer, provided such absence is of not less than four months duration. iso
it may be admitted that the duties of Lssessor of dues am: istave Duty Commisioner are in themselves distinct. But
the duties of the Sadet Assistant to the reasuror have
never been precisely defined. He is, like the adet assistents in other deperents, ectod to share with the Treasurer the responsibilities of the department and, if in the case now under review eligibility for additional salary in respect of shortage of staf is admitted, it is difficult
to see how similer reruests can be refused, whenever shorte of cadet officers leaves a department with something less then its full complement of such officers. During the
Period