any other course would be embarrassing.
In this
connection, I attach a print of a despatch which was
sent some time ago to Nigeria in reply to a
petition from the medical staff raising this particular
But the general principle also applies
point.
so it seems to me to the time-scales. In the Public
the
Works Department he present time-scale runs from
there is a higher-grade for
£550 to £1150;
Executive Engineers at £1180 £1300.
Under the
revised arrangements the higher-grade will be on
£1000 to £1150 with £150 residential allowance.
appears to me that any officer serving on the old
lower grade time-scale who is promoted after the
introduction of the new scheme to the grade of
In principl
It
Eexecutive Engineer ought to be placed on the new scale.
If his salary at the time of promotion is £1000 or less
he would be placed on the scale £1000
-
£50 £1150 his mitial salary waved
+ £150 residential allowance and start at the minimum. be governed by ER. Cor Res 44.
If his salary on promotion was more than £1,000 he
would start at the appropriate point in the new
scale in accordance with Colonial Regulation 44
receiving the residential allowance of £150. The effect
fest, of course, of such an arrangement would be that existing officers serving in the lower grade would
not on promotion to the higher grade obtain any
improvement in the pensionable emoluments to which they
-could
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