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something to meet that.
(d) The increase of pensionable emoluments attainable in
the Public Works and Educational Services will help
to meet difficulties as regards application to
serving officers referred to in paragraphs 23 and 24.
In order to avoid undue lengthening of the scales we
suggest that the actual scales for Executive Engineers and
Headmasters and the scale for Administrative officers after
the 15th year should be £1050 x £50
£1000 x £50 £1150 as at prosent.
£1250 instead of
16. Wo attach at the cnd of this part of our Report
tables showing the comparative effects in the different
services of the scheme of Residential Allowances as at
present laid down and our proposed alternative. It will
be seen that the total Residential Allowance drawn by
officers over the whole period of each scale will not be
greatly affected and we think that officers already appointed to the new scales may reasonably be asked to
accept the alternative system.
17.
We recommend that in every case Residential
Allowance should commence to be paid after the end of an
officer's probationary period.
18. In the correspondence with the Secretary of State it was suggested that the allowances of £50, £100 and £150 per annum might be treated as equal, respectively, to $70, $140 and $200 per month. We recommend that they should be regarded simply as sterling allowances con--
vertible into dollars at the same rate as other sterling
emoluments.
19. The existing scales provide for the payment of extra Residential Allowances to Legal officers acting as Registrar and Land Officer and to Educational officers acting as Senior Master. We think it preferable that these extra allowances, £100 and £50 respectively, should
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