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scheme of the sort for extra remuneration was
justified.
In view, however, of the
Commission's report the Governor recommended that
the grade of Executive Engineer with 8 appointments
on the scle of £1180 to £1,300 should be revived
between
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a grade intermediate to that of Engineer and
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Assistant,Department of Public Works.
For the
appointment of Technical Secretary to the Depart-
ment of Public Works he recommends that the salary
should be on the Executive Engineer's scale
unless and until the present holder can be
absorbed in the establishment of 8 Executive
Engineers.
SUPERINTENDENT OF CROWN LANDS AND SUPERINTENDENT OF SURVEYS.
These Officers also draw charge allowance
and if they are to be abolished the Governor
recommends that the maximum of their scales should
rise by one further increment to £1,240. For
the 1st Assistant Superintendent of Crown Lands he
advocates a revised maximum of £1,050 instead of
£1,020 subject to reconsideration when the post
next falls vacant.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
The Governor assumes that the existing
staff will as a rule enter the new scales at the
point justified by their length of service on
their existing scales and he recommends that an
Officer who has been three years in a given grade
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should be pensionable on revised salary and not
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the average of his revised and unrevised salaries
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