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Director of Air Services.
I do not feel able to recommend
that this be made pensionable. His present pensionable
emoluments are £1600 plus £200 for quarters under Section 2 (1) (c) of the Pensions Ordinance 1932. The addition for quarters has already been agreed to be over-generous and is to be curtailed for future appointments and I do not regard total pensionable emoluments of £1800 per annum as unreasonable
even for the combined posts of Harbour Master and Director of
Air Services.
3. Representations were also made by the Deputy Harbour Master, Commander J. B. Newill, on grounds of the inadequacy of the salary of his post and of the fact that he has been
on the maximum salary of his present scale for over seven
years and has practically no prospect of further promotion
owing to his being slightly older than the Harbour Master.
Somewhat similar representations were made by the Assistant Harbour Master Mr. T. W. H. Hosegood. I attach copies of
letters from these two officers. After consideration of
these representations the Anomalies Committee suggested, and I recommend for your approval, that both these officers should be permitted to come on to the new scales of salary recommended for their posts with the personal privilege of retaining their present terms as to quarters and accordingly of adding one-sixth of salary, subject to the maximum of
£200, to their emoluments for pension purposes.
In Mr.
Hosegood's case he would furthermore be permitted to enter
the scale of £750 to £1,000 proposed for his post at the
maximum. The effect would be an increase in emoluments for
Commander Newill from £1200 to £1250 per annum, pensionable emoluments being increased from £1400 to £1450 and in the
case of Mr. Hosegood an increase from £950 to £1000,