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See para. 3 of despatch.
Here again the recommendation may, I think,
be approved.
The Committee point out that rent allowances
in some cases form an unduly large proportion of an
officer's total salary and they recommend the
restriction of the allowance to 10 per cent. of bas
salary in the case of married officers and 5 per
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cent. of salary in the case of single officers.
Here again I see no objection in principle to the
recommendation but the Governor states that some
hardship might be caused by the curtailment of
allowances already in operation, particularly in
present circumstances, and recommends that the
modifications should be held in abeyance pending
further consideration.
I think we should agree to
this.
Officers required by the nature of their (49.4at Habitals on Police Luwies
work to live in Government quarters were formerly
exempted from payment of the usual rent of 6 per cent.
The usual rent is now 12 per cent. and the Committee
recommend that in such circumstances the rental to
be paid should in all cases be reduced by 6 per cent.,
as complete exemption from payment may be too great a compensation for the disadvantages of living in the as
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Residential Allowances.
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in effect, the respect,
There are striking variations in the
residential allowances paid to various branches of
the service, according to the present revised scheme
of salaries, and the Committee suggest that these
variations do not correspond to any distinction
between some at least of the branches of the service
affected.
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