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allowances granted to certain grades of the service to
supplement the existing cost of living and rehabilitation
allowances which were approved towards the end of last year.
15.
There is another factor for which it was
considered desirable to make special provision: it is
intended that the new municipality will be established during the course of the present financial year and until certain heads of revenue are transferred to that body it
will be necessary for them to have a working balance on
which they can draw. A sum of one and a half million has
accordingly been included under "Miscellaneous Services"
an initial grant to the Municipal Council.
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All departmental expenditure has been carefully
examined and the provision which has been made represents
the minimum necessary to finance the various services as
at present organized. Nevertheless, recurrent expenditure
still reaches a very high figure and it is hoped that the
Efficiency Expert whose services have been sought will be
able to suggest possible economies and schemes for
re-organization.
17.
The work of many departments is still greatly in excess of that for which the establishments were designed, and it has in consequence been necessary to augment the
staffs. The policy has been to provide for such additional
staff under block votes as temporary staff rather than to detail the appointments under departmental heads, which is
apt to convey some suggestion of permanency. A suitable
degree of control is being exercised over these votes for
temporary staff and by next year it should be possible to
decide what proportion of such staffs will be permanently
required. This proportion can then be shown in detail in
the departmental estimates.
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