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of twenty years' service.
The immediate problem is thus one of devising
a sgale of compensation applicable to the cases of officers
retired between thoir tenth and twentieth year of
Colonial service, or, in other words, of supplementing
service pensions which in the case of officers of the
edministrative service retired while on the long scale
will rango from £150 per annum to slightly over £450 per
annam, Of officers falling within this range those with
the least service and, in consequence, the smallest
pensions would probably suffer most from the premature
terminati on of their careers. It is proposed, therefore
that the maximum compensatory pension should be granted
to officers in this category and that the amount of
compensati. or should diminish progressively and evenly
until it coeuos in the case of an officer who has
completed twenty years of service.
The exact amount of
the maximum compensation and the rate at which it should
be diminished are matters about which there is room for
argument, but it is suggested for consideration that the
rate should be fixed at 1 th of the officer's pensiona ble
600 emoluments for each complete period of two months by
which his pensionable service falls short of twenty years,
thus giving a maximum compensatory pension of 60 ths of
600 those emoluments in a case of retirement after exactly
ten years' pensionable service. A table is attached
illustrating the application of this scheme to
administrative staff on the new salary scales and compari
the awards on the basis now proposed with awards computed
under the old pension terms.
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