17.
- 5
Similarly the values of promotion to the Executive
Engineer are given below:-
E.E. to A. D. P. W.
Change in Salary.
Range
In Colony
Un leave.
Change in
P.E.
£
(4) New Scale to New Scale
£
Fixed
+198
£
+48
+ 200
(5) Old
#
It
#t
+78
(6)
OLD
#
11
"
41
Min. +45 (1 incr) Prosp.
-† 48
+ 50
+90
+96
+100
Reasonable increase on promotion result in (4), fair increases result in (6) but in (5) the only increase is in the value of quarters whilst in the Colony, Salary on leave and P.E. remaining
the same.
18.
(b) Comparison with other professional officers of the Service
Appendix IV shows the proposed basic salaries for the
various professional officers of the Service and indicates the
A. C. 's appraisal of the relative values of their services.
19. The Medical officer and the Engineer pursue a similar
course of training and whereas the former sometimes takes a longer period in obtaining practical experience before joining the local Service this is compensated for by the difference in
starting salaries. With this distinction and in the amount of
the increments, the old scales of salaries for both Medical
officer and Engineer acknowledge, at the maximum, virtual
equality of value. But whereas the maximum of the proposed
scales shows a reduction of £200 for the Engineer a reduction of
only £30 is shown for the Medical Officer. We submit that there
is no justification for changing the assessment of the relative
values of these two professional grades.
20. The Engineer is generally admitted to be of a
86.