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confined to officers on £1000 or over at the time
of the introduction of the new scales, all engineers
serving on the old terms should be allowed to
continue to pay rent for quarters at 6% only and
therefore to retain their pension privilege. As
regards promotion of Executive Engineers to the
grade of Assistant Director of Public Works, however,
the new scales do provide some advancement both
in actual and in pensionable emoluments, although
not so great an advance as under the old scales.
We therefore recommend that the new scales should
be adhered to in any future appointments to that
grade.
(c) Medical Service. Scales for certain specialist
and other posts intermediate between the time
scale and the Deputy Director of Medical Services
are proposed in Part IV of this report.
recommend that any Medical Officer on the old
scales who may be appointed to one of the
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specialist posts be allowed to retain his old
privileges as to quarters and pension. No
difficulty arises as to promotion to Senior Medical
Officer.
(d) Legal Service. No anomalies analagous to those
in the Public Works Department appear to arise
and we recommend that the new scales be applied
to all future appointments.
(e) Educational Service. The position is in some
respects analogous to the Public Works Service
in that there is a super grade of head masters
intermediate between the ordinary time scale and
the Director of Education.
Promotion to the