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current year one post has been left unfilled and the
others have been manned by temporary transfers from other branches of the service. This is unsatisfactory
and in any case the se makeshift arrangements could not continue next year. Some expansion of the staff available for these clerical positions is inevitable
and it is merely a question of the nature of the
expansion.
Government has from time to time had on its books locally recruited officers who have fulfilled all the requirements desired, but something better than the prospects of the Junior Clerical Service, which is becoming a little unwieldy by its weight of numbers, and consequent slow promotion, is required to attract and
It is therefore hold the right type of recruit. proposed, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State before whom the scheme has been laid to create a local section of the Senior Clerical & Accounting staff, and to fill it with specially selected men of the type who now enter the Special Class of the Junior Clerical Service, and unfortunately leave it only too often just
The section when their promise is becoming clear.
will be in three classes and its main feature is a long time-scale in Class II which will start at the same figure as Special Class Junior Clerical Service, i.e. $1,200 per annum and proceed by increments of $150 p.a. to $4,500 with efficiency bars at $2,400 and 3,000.
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