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rented quarters, nett salaries plus allowances have, for the
purposes of comparison, been computed for these conditions,
allowances being calculated in accordance with G. . 117(5).
4. Effect on Salaries.
As the majority of officers occupy
An examination of Appendix I shows that an Engineer
when promoted from the maximum of the existing scale to the
minimum of an Executive Engineer on the proposed scale would,
while in the Colony, sustain a loss of £75 per annum, compared
with an increase of £27 if promoted on the existing scale, .
total luss of 2102 per annum.
Corresponding figures when on leave show a loss of
£144 instead of a gain of £29, a total loss of £173 per annum,
Similarly an Executive Engineer, when promoted from
the maximum of his existing scale to the fixed salary of an
Assistant Director of Public Works on the proposed scale, would,
while in the Colony, gain £78 per annum instead of receiving no
immediate increase. AS, however, the existing salary of an
Assistant Director of Public Works is incremental and the
proposed salary is fixed this increase would be reduced to a
loss of £12 per annum after two years. When on leave, while
there would be no immediate loss on promotion, the loss after
two years would, as explained in the previous sentence, be
£96 per annum.
5. Effect on Pensionable Emɔluments.
Appendix II shows that an Engineer when promoted
from the maximum of his existing scale to the minimum of an
Executive Engineer on the proposed scale would lose £259 in
pensionable emoluments instead of an increase of £35, a tutal
luss of £294 even waen the proposed addition of one twelfth has
been made.
Similarly, promotion from Executive Engineer to
Assistant Director of Public Works would entail an immediate
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