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An additional supervisor at King's College at a salary of $400 per annum is also recommended as well as an increase in the remuncration of the Supervisor of Vernacular classes from $240 to $400 per annum and of allowance to the Technical Institute Clerk from $360 to £600 p.a. The estimated cost of these adjustments is $6421 per annum.
Faragraphs 153 & 154. Public Works Department.
Paragraph 153: Assistant Director of Fublic Works For roosens that will appear below it is recommended that the minimum for this post shall be raised to £1,300.
Engineers.
The Government while agreeing that the system of Charge Allowances is bjcctionable is nevertheless of the opinion that these allowances now payable to the Engincers in charge of the main sub-departments of the Public Works Department crc paid in recognition of a very real access of responsibility to the fficers concerned. Morcover, with onc Dircetorship
Assistant and two/Directorships as the only higher posts in the depart- mcnt, the prospects of the fifty odd cngincors both for promotion and for acting pay are extremely poor compared with those of other branches of the Scrvice (cf. Education Department, two Headmasterships, two Inspectorships and three Senior Kastcrships). It is, therefore, recommended that the grade of Exccutive Engineer intermediate between that of Engineer and Assistant Director bc rcvived ith a salary scale of £1180 to £1300 by $40 annually and that 8 ports on this scale, corrcsp- onding to the cight chicf branches of the department should be
Should the constructional side of the Waterworks
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