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COLONIAL OFFICE,
PALACE CHAMBERS,
BRIDGE STREET, S.W.1.
29th March, 1947.
Dear Rowell,
Your help will be greatly appreciated over one or two points in the application for additional expenditure in connection with charge and overseas allowances about which the Governor sent Telegram No.232 of the 5th February, 1947; the estimate was, later, amended in Savingram No.120 of 14th March,1947.
As some difficulty is being experienced in reconciling the details given in the Savingram with what is authorised in the amended Code, we shall be grateful for further information which can be given to the Treasury when they are asked to approve the additional expenditure.
Se tion 10 of the amended Code states that the salaries of certain teachers shall be at the rates laid down for Assistant Teachers in the Burnham Scale of August, 1945. But the Report of the Burnham Committee gives two scales for Assistant Teachers in Primary and Secondary Schools one for men and the other for women. As the Savingram quotes the case of Monks only, is it to be assumed that when the Code speaks about a scale it is the men's scale that is being adopted. This appears to be the intention as the 1941 Code evidently allowed both men and women to receive a maximum salary of £600. As other sections of the Code refer to different scales for men and women, it is suggested that the amended Code be definite on this point.
T.R.R WELL, ESQ.
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