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The great difference between a time scale with efficiency
bars and a scheme of classes being, that the former
admits of a good man going forward at any time while the
latter requires the occurrence of a vacancy. As a
start it is proposed to provide for six Class II posts, with a view to appointing two officers in the Secretariat,
two in the Treasury and two at the Magistracies where
Cadet officers are now performing clerical duties for
lack of other staff. The scheme embraces a
Probationary Class III for very junior recruits and a Class I with a salary scale of 44,600 plus $200 to
$5,600. For the immediate relief of the Senior Clerical position, junior recruits are useless and it
will be some years before a member of the new cadre
becomes eligible for Class I. No provision is
therefore being made for either of these categories in
the present Estimates.
The next increase to which I wish to refer is
that in the Assessor's staff of the Treasury on page 19.
Your Excellency when introducing the Budget last year
stated that an officer of the Public Works Department
was being seconded to the Assessor's office. This
transfer is now being made permanent by the creation of
the post of Second Assistant Assessor. There has been
a corresponding reduction in the establishment of
Overseers in the Public Works Department. The
Inspector of Tenements and the Class III officer of the
Senior