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concerned.
3.
Secondly, I have considered the suggestions in
paragraph 2(d) of your despatch, regarding the Government
Analyst, the medical "super-scale" posts, the Wireless
Engineer and Senior Mistresses. The Director of Medical
Services strongly represents that the salary of £1100
proposed for the Government Analyst is inadequate and is
in fact less favourable than the present salary of that
post i.e. £1050 with old terms as to quarters. It has been
recognized that it is necessary to offer somewhat better
salaries in order to attract and retain officers in this
department, and an improvement in the scales of Assistants
has already been approved. (See correspondence ending
with Mr. Ormsby-Gore's telegram No.190 of 30th September,
1937). In the circumstances I shall be glad if further
consideration could be given to the placing of this post
on the same scale as that proposed above for Executive
Engineers etc. The Government Analyst is, like the
Executive Engineer, the head of a sub-department rather than the head of an independent department and the general considerations in favour of fixed salaries for posts of the
latter status do not, therefore, apply. The maximum of
£1200 without quarters will be more or less exactly
comparable to the salary of the Government Chemist in
Nigeria, which is understood to be £1050 with free quarters.
4. As regards the salaries of medical posts such as those of Bacteriologist, Malariologist and Radiologist,
these were perhaps incorrectly described in the Anomalies
Committee Report as super-scale posts; they are rather specialist posts requiring special qualifications and somewhat removed from the ordinary path of promotion. desirable that the holders of these posts should have a
prospect of rising to a salary somewhat higher than the
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