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rule laid down in paragraph (i) of the Observations
on the Salaries Report published in Sessional Paper No.
3 of 1930.
The
The facts are that in 1927 the salary scales in
this Department were, as the Report mentions (paragraph
146), altered and improved, the main features being an
increase in the minimum and maximum and the abolition
of classes in favour of through-scales.
European Masters were transferred to the increment in the new scales next above their existing salaries.
Thus Mr. Handyside having reached the top of Class II
(£600) in 1925, was transferred in 1927 to £625.
Allotment of salary in the present revision has
corresponded step for step with the positions resulting from the earlier revision and it is against this that Mr. Handy side protests claiming
that he should count all his service towards
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increments in his present scale. We cannot agree
with him: for not only was he carried over the haït
at the top of Class II by the 1927 revision but his
maximum was raised from £700 £800 and we consider
that the Director of Education is correct in
treating the scale-positions resulting from the 1927
revised scale as the basis for allotment of salaries
under the present revision. Further we would
of sorve