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CHAPTER III.
EXPATRIATION PAY.
General Principles.
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Paragraph 3 of Part I of White Paper Colonial No.197 dealing with the organisation of the Colonicl Servico statos:-
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"I progressive advancement along the road to self-government within the amework of the British Commonwealth of Nations is to be a reality, the public services of the Colonios must be adapted to local conditions and must to the greatest possible extent be staffed by local people. It is already a fully accepted princmplo that there should be no barrier to the appointment 62 a Colonial candidate or a locally recruited public servant to any post which he is queliriod 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 starf to fulfil 11 the requirements of modemadninis- tration...
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Paragraph 21 or Part IV of the same Whito Paper dealing with the structure of the Colonial Service lays down cortain general principles to which vo have already referred. Those locling with the basis on which salarios should be paid are as follows:-
(i) "The salaries of all posts in the public
service of a Colony should be determined according to the nature of the work and the relative responsibilities irrespective of the race or domeile of the individuals occupying the posts.
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The salaries should be fined wù rates applicable to locally recruited staff, ovon though there may, for the time boing, bo grades in which fow or no locally recruited of licors are in fact sorving.
In rising these basic sulavius regard should be paid to the relevant local circumstances, such as the ruling income level in those clacson of tho comunity from which the public service is or will Do recruited.
Where the salaries so fixed are insufficient to attract and retain officers from overseas, expatriatic pay should be provided for such oficers. I determining the rates or capatriation pay it will be relevant to consider such factors as tedditionel expenses to which an officer may be put by ronson of the wet that ho 1s sorving away from his own home, ospecially when his Services pro in a non-temperate climato; the remuneration and nonitìos available in altovative careers in the officer's hone
country; and the gonoral standard of romuneration and conditions in the Colonial Service."
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