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on the Salaries Report was confined to the
retention of the 10 years service qualification
and left untouched the changes in rates recommended by the Report. In this belief we were at very
considerable pains to draft a workable scheme for
the application of the new allowances. It has
now been decided that paragraphs 180 and 181 of the Salaries Report are to be regarded as wholly
abrogated and our scheme does not therefore
require further consideration.
Nevertheless
we think it may be useful to record three of its
points, namely:-
(a) For the class of employee most conveniently described by the term "Labour" no scheme of
rent allowances is workable which varies the
allowance with the actual family circumstances
of the employee.
(b) Government is not called upon to provide
married quarters for female employees of this
class or to grant any allowance where, as is
practically always the case, single quarters
are provided. It seems to us absurd, for
instance, that Government should be expected
to contribute towards the housing of the
husbands
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