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scales go above £800 per annum, and Nursing Sisters
and School Mistresses, and 'Second' in the case of
other officers.'
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6. The salary scale of an Assistant Government Analyst
does not go above £800 per annum and Your Petitioners
are therefore debarred from the grant of First Class
passages.
7. Your Petitioners, by reason of the dates of their
appointments, are not given the option of remaining
under the General Orders which were in force at the
date of their appointments.
8. Your Petitioners, feeling that the said revision of
General Orders has operated to their detriment,
have asked that the said General Order No.178 (2)
may be amended to read 'up to and above £800 per
annum' instead of 'above £800 per annum' or
alternatively that the Assistant Government
Analysts may be granted an increase in the
attainable maximum of their salary scales.
This request has been refused.
9. While recognizing that the Government must fix some
criterion for determining whether an Officer should
or should not be entitled to a First Class passage,
Your Petitioners humbly submit that in fixing a
salary limit which excludes Assistant Government
Analysts from this privilege the Government has
acted contrary to the principle hereto in force
in the Colony that professional officers possessing
University degrees or equivalent qualifications
should be granted First Class passages.