1 600
The raising of the former to 55 in Dependencies where
it has previously been 50 may justify consideration of
lengthening the time-scale so as to reduce the period
for which the unpromoted officer would serve at the
maximum. The reduction of the pension fraction for
Tropical Africa to th would raise the question
whether the maximum pensionable emoluments of officers
on the time-scale should be increased in order to
mitigate the effect upon the actual pension to be drawn.
Both these considerations strengthen the case for main-
taining the maximum salary of the time-scale at £1,000,
as recommended by the Warren Fisher Committee and in the
unification scheme, even if this should render necessary
some compensating reduction in the number of existing
super-scale posts. Again, it is necessary to repeat
that the salary scale is only part of a general scheme
of conditions of service, and that the adoption of the
standard scale proposed for the unified service cannot
be recommended unless accompanied by adoption not only
of the pension system, but of the other standard terms
embodied in the unification scheme.
Finally, while it is for the Governor in each
Dependency to form his opinion and to advise the
Secretary of State as to the necessities of the local
financial situation and as to the reasonable require-
ments of officers, having regard to the cost of living
and other local circumstances, it is the Secretary of State who, in addition, has to judge the general recruiting situation and to assume responsibility for maintaining the
quality of the Colonial Administrative Service and other
branches. It is his duty to resist any tendency which
might result in lowering the standard of the Service.
The Colonies cannot afford to offer terms which fall
below