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Allocations in advance are already made, and Engineers are, 30 far as the Government is aware, not unduly fettered by the present
system.
Paragraph 36. Whilst Government does not propose to proceed with a central store at present owing to lack of funds for the capital expenditure involved, it does not share the views of the Commission that several small stores, each with their own separate staffs, are more economical than one large store.
Paragraphs 37-41. As soon as the post of Technical Secretary has been vacated by its present holder the salary of the post will be made the same as that of an engineer at present it is the same as that of executive engineer- and a more junior
officer appointed.
to the Secretary.
The same remarks apply mutatis mutandis Regarding the amalgamation of the two
Assistant Directors of Public Works into one Deputy Director of Public Works, Government is inclined to doubt the wisdom of the suggestion.
Were the recommendation, of the Commission to be adopted it would still be necessary to have one officer co- ordinating all the work on the Island, and another all the work on the mainland. The officers selected would probably be the two senior executive engineers. It is not difficult to imagine that in a few years these senior executive engineers would have grown into Assistant Directors of Public Works, in addition to which there would also be the higher salaried Deputy Director of Public Torks. Government agrees that the Director of Public Works should be relieved of the signing of cheques and that Assistant Directors of Public Works and Executive Engineers should be given increased authority as regards expenditure, subject to a definite limit. The Director of Public Works is preparing concrete proposals which will then be scrutinised by the Treasurer and
Auditor