COST OF LIVING ALLOWANCES FOR
OFFICERS ON LEAVE.
73
؟
(3 ct
52706/14)
ditte)
112.4
ditte)
Before salaries were revised to post war level Colonial
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Governments, paid cost of living allowance to officers on leave
The payment was a measure of compensation
in this country.
for the general increase in the cost of living in this country
and elsewhere. Palestine, however, where cost of living
allowance was exceptionally high owing to special circumstances,
paid officers on leave half rates of allowance.
When Malaya introduced cost of living allowance the rates
were comparatively high and we recommended that only half rates
should be paid to officers on leave. That course was adopted.
In 1948, the Joint Committee on Cost of Living Allowances
in Malaya made the following recommendation in paragraph 17 of
their Report: -
"At present officers on leave, or sent on duty outside Malaya,
receive only half their cost of living allowance while they are
away. We recommend that they should receive the full allowance.
The full allowance is not sufficient to compensate them for the
higher post war cost of living and should therefore be regarded
as part of their total remuneration and not as an addition payable
only when they are in Malaya."
In a letter commenting on the Report as a whole, the Treasury
made the following reference to the above recommendation
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"The proposal seems to me difficult to accept.
Subsequently, to certain criticism of the Report generally, the
Governor telegraphed
"Report of Cost of Living Allowance Committee contains
agreed recommendations arrived at after considerable argument
and with difficulty. They represent compromises accepted by
/representatives