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that the present salaries of the local employces of Government
are inadequate.
(iii) It is considered that the revised salaries should
count in full for pension, i.c., that the pensionable salary
of an officer who at the date of revision has been three
yours in a given post, grade or class (or one with the same salary scale) should be his revised salary and not the average
of his revised and old salaries. Similarly, where the last
three years of service have been in posts with different
salary scales, the average to be struck should be that of
the revised salaries of both posts and the same rule should
apply where the carlier post was formerly on the same scale
as the letter but under the revision is on a different scale.
The first part of the rule proposed above requires
no argument. For apart from the fact that any other application of the new scheme would delay for three years the full effect of one of its main objects, the rule requiring cmoluments to be averaged for present purposes opcrates only when there has been some change of office which is not the
case here. The other proposals are natural corollaries of
the main proposition.
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(sd) Wy Southoon
Colonial Secretary.