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scale in accordance with Colonial
Regulation 44 receiving the residential
allowance of £150. The effect, 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 which they will
now reach in the ordinary course of
events without promotion, and I should be
prepared in the circumstances to consider
granting special treatment to any officer
who at the time the new scale is introduced
is already at or near the maximum of the
existing scale applicable to the lower
grade. For this purpose I would propose
for your consideration that any officers
serving on the lower grade who at the
time the new scales are introduced are
in receipt of £1000 or more should be
allowed subject in each case to your
recommendation to retain the old scale
on promotion to the grade of Executive
ngineer.
5.