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Superintendent of Mails. In 1927 when the new Senior
Clerical and Accounting Staff was organized as a
separate branch of the service, all officers on sterling
salaries who were discharging clerical or quasi-clerical
duties were fitted into the new branch at suitable points
and with them Mr. Lay who was placed sixth in Class III
with a salary of £240 in the then scale of £200 £10 -
£350. It is, however, essential to the working of the
new branch that its members below the special appointments
shall be available for transfer among the departments
to meet the exigencies of long leave and as Mr. Lay's
duties in the Post Office would not permit of his being
so treated, he was in 1930 re-assigned definitely to the
closed establishment of the Post Office where his
revised salary as Assistant Superintendent of Mails
(£250 - £445 by varying increments) is the same as that
of Class III of the Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff.
In the meantime, however, four of the officers who were
above him when in Class III have either retired or died
and the fifth has been promoted to Class II (£460 - £20
£560) as has also another officer who was placed below
Mr. Lay in 1927. There is no reason why, a new
Superintendent having been secured, Mr. Lay should not
in due course be considered for the Deputyship. In
the meantime, however, I am of opinion that there are
good grounds for some compensation to Mr. Lay for loss
of prospects by retention in the closed department of
the Post Office, and I accordingly recommend that he
be granted, with effect from 1st January 1934, a personal
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