cogening
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overwhelming, though it certainly has urency
in so far as the last years on the scale are
concerned. Here of course the effect of our
proposed modification of the Salaries Commission
scale would be to reduce pensions in certain
cases below what would have been earned under
the "pre-African" scale and clearly that is
an objectionable feature.
Apart however from this point it is considered
here that we should accept the Governor's proposal
on more general grounds. The administrative time-
scale alone remains unapproved of all the
major time-scales dealt with by the Salaries
Commission. As I mentioned in para. 5 of my letter
of the 20th February we knew then that the
Commission's proposed scale was regarded by the
Service as unsatisfactory compared with the other
scales. The Governor now reinforces this information
in the first sentence of his telegram No.376 and in the
last paragraph of his telegram No. 377. We consider that
it is of the greatest importance that the scale we Arially
At last approve should at least not be less than
what the Governor advises is, in itself,
cause disappointment.
is, in itself, bound to
The increment of £60 now proposed after the
initial two (probationary) years is well supported
by Colonial Service practice elsewhere and our
Colonial Service Dept. has no objection to the adoption
of the scale now proposed.
I hope therefore you will be able to agree to
(ک)
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) our approving it i. e. the scale in col. of
the attached statement.
3.