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grade of Head-master on the new scale does, however,
represent some advancement to educational officers
on the old time scale both in actual and in
pensionable emoluments. It does not represent
any real advancement to officers of the grade of
Senior Master on the old scale and the Secretary
of State in his despatch referred to suggested that
any officers at present of the rank of Senior
Master should be entitled on promotion to the grade
of Head-master to the old scale. We recommend
instead that such officers should, like Engineers,
come on to the new scale with their old terms as to
quarters and pensions.
(f) Police Service. Superintendents and Assistant
Superintendents are not treated as distinct grades
in the same way as Executive Engineers and
Engineers and no analagous difficulty arises.
Representations have been made to the effect that the advancement gained by a Superintendent on the
present scale on promotion to the post of Deputy
Commissioner of Police will be inadequate, since
his present scale rises to a maximum of £1300 and
the new salary of the Deputy Commissioner is only
£1300 plus free quarters. There is, however, some
advantage in such promotion even to an officer at
the top of the time-scale, since he will gain free
quarters and we cannot recommend that the old scale
of Deputy Commissioner of Police should be preserved
for existing police officers. One individual
officer, Mr. W.R. Scott, is in a special position
as he is already personally entitled to free
quarters;
we consider that his position may have