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sub-departments of the Public Works Department now appointed under the revision to the revived grade of Executive Engineer have protested against the salaries allotted to them in that grade. We cannot accept their arguments which ignore the fact that the whole of their salary in the revived grade will be pensionable and drawn on leave while the Charge Allowance instituted in connection with the 1920 revision was neither pensionable nor drawn on leave.
The salaries actually allotted on revision were
as follows :-
Pre-revision s lary.
Revised Salary.
£950
Mr. L.H. King
£1,260.
£900
Mr. A.V. Tickle (Technical
£1,220.
Secretary
Plus £900
$2,400 £900
Mr. E. Newhouse
£1,220
MHC Kowick
£1,220.
Charge £850
Mr. T.D. Wilson
...
£1,180
Allowance
2875
Mr. H.S. Rouse
£1,180
£850
Mr. A.B. Purves
£1,180
£850
Mr. H.J. Pearce
£1,180
£850
Mr. A. Anderson
£1,180
We consider these allotments fully
adequate to the circumstances.
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The Superintendents of Crown Lands and Surveys have protested against the fixing of their
revised
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