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CHAPTER III.
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EXPATRIATION PAY.
General Principles.
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Paragraph 3 of Part I of White Paper Coloninl No.197 dealing with the organisation of the Colonial Service states:-
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"I progressivo advancement along the road to self-goverment within the work of the British Commonwealth of Nations is to be a reality, the public services of the Colonies mist be adapted to local conditions and must to the greatest possiblo extent be staffed by local people. It is elrondy a fully accepted principle that there should be no barrier to the eppointment of a Colonial candidate or a locally recruited public servant to any post which ho is qualified to fill, but it would bo unrealistic not to recognise that for a long time to come may Colonies will not be able to find fro.. their own resources enough suitably qualified stan to fulfil all tho requirements of modernadminis- tration...
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Paragraph 21 of Part IV of the same White Paper dueling with the structure of the Colonial Service lays down cortain gonoral principles to which Wo have already roferred. Those foaling with the basis on which salaries should be paid are as follows:
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"The salaries of all posts in the public
service of a Colony should be determined according to the nature of the work and the rolative responsibilities irrespective of the race or doncile of the individuals occupying the posts.
The salaries should be fixed at ratos applicable to locally recruited staff, ovon though there imny, for the time boing, bo grades in hich row or no locally recruited of floors or in fact serving.
In fizing these basic salaries regard should bo paid to the relevant local circumstances, such as the riding income leveļo in those classon of tho community from which the pubite Service is or will Do recruited.
Where the salaries so fixed are insufficient to attruct and rebain officups Iron overseas, orostriatlo pay should be provided for sucİL ofticurs. Ir determining the ratos m cpatriation pay it will be relevant to consider such factors as the additionel expenses to which an officer may be put by ronson of the rct that ho 13 sorving away from his own home, osoccially when his Servicos aro in a non-taporato climato; tho rominoration end a unities available in alternative careers in the officer's home
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country; and the gonoral standard of remuneration and conditions in the Colonial Borvico. :}
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