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without recommendations for acceding to the requests of
YOUR petitioners.
13.
That, accordingly YOUR petitioners have requested
Government through the Head of their Department, to advise
YOU that they would be presenting their case to YOU in the
form of a petition.
14.
That, the representations of YOUR petitioners
are briefly as follows:-
(a) Unification with other Colonies on the lines
proposed does not appear to be capable of
application to the Engineering officers of
this Department without creating anomalies,
(Vide Enclosure A, paragraph 10.)
(b) The proposals of the Anomalies Committee
provide for large increases over existing
salaries for the lower grades and preferential
treatment in other grades, for many professional
branches of the Service whereas great
reductions are proposed for all grades of
YOUR petitioners. (Vide Enclosure B, paragraph 18-27 & Appendix V)
(c) The status of YOUR petitioners vis-a-vis
other professional officers of this Service
would be unjustly reduced. (Vide Enclosure B
paragraphs 18 et sequentes)
(d) The Salaries Commission of 1929 based their
recommendations on all cssential factors of
service in the Colony whereas the Anomalies
Committee appear to have based theirs on an
arbitrary selection of such factors (Vide
Enclosure a paragraph 11).
(e) The value of YOUR petitioners services has
increased and will continue so to do with the