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$5,765,250. Taking Public Works Extraordinary as being
an index by which to judge the Colony's rate of
development, the Public Works Department Staff would
appear to have increased disproportionately.
While it is admitted that with the growth of the
Colony more personnel is required to look after Re-current
Works, we submit that the large increase in staff cannot
be wholly justified on that account. To take overal
other Departments, we find the staff augmented as follows:
Department
1921
Sterling-vaid Officers
1930
Prison Department (warders)
44
70
Harbour Office
7
17
Marine Surveyors
4
14
Police Force
186
263
Public Works
80
161
For the size of the Colony and the amount of
administrative work necessary, we think the personnel of the
Government is exceedingly generous in numbers.
There are
38 Cadet Officers, over 50 Engineers in the Public Works
Department (not counting the senior posts), and over 70
European officers in the Police Force above the rank of
Sergeant. Such figures as these would seem to call for a
full enquiry into the method of staffing Government
Departments, and we submit that in recent years the Colony's
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