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The history of the increase of salary of Civil Servants is briefly the following one :-

24th October, 1918-Temporary war allowance, varying from per cent. to 20 per cent, on all salaries up to Rs.6,000. G.M. 10 of 1918.

28th October, 1919-Temporary allocation varying from 15 per cent. to 5 per cent. on all salaries.

16th December, 1919-Temporary allocation varying from 15 per cent. to 5 per cent. on all salaries.

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Head 19.

Item. 36.-Road Construction

Rs. 4,000

Head 29.

5

Item 1. Twenty per cent, cut general management Item 2.-Twenty per cent. cut salaries Items 3-4.-Maintenance and Labour ... Item 5.-Miscellaneous

1,500

5.000

3,000

5,000

(Commissioners' Report, page 146.)

Head 8.

Other Charges, steam launch Princess of Wales

4,000

Head 27.

Item 7.

Ten per cent. cut on Contributions to

Branch Road Funds

5,000

Item 10.

Ten per cent. cut on Contributions to Dis-

trict Water Works

7,200

Rs.363,100

Supplementary Annexure.

Sálaries and Pensions.

The present rate of pay of the Civil Service is the main cause

of the acute feeling of discontent now prevalent in all 'classes of the population in Mauritius.

It is easily understandable that the population should strenuously resist the imposition of new taxation to allow the Colonial Govern- ment to continue pay to its Civil Service the same salaries which were paid during the periods when the Budgets left high surplus balances every year, and the Reserves of the Colony and the De- velopment Fund attained nearly Rs.30 millions.

No answer can be made to the taxpayer who says:-

"I have during the last few years been brought back to a position which is much worse than it was before the war. Why should the Civil Service continue to receive war-time and bumper years salaries?"

There is no case to justify the Government maintaining the present rate of salaries and it is only in February last, notwith- standing the repeated representations made by the Unofficial Members, that the Government has reduced by Rs.380,000 only, a Budget of Rs.5,800,000 for personal emoluments.

G.M. 8 and 16 of 1919.

23rd March, 1920-Herchenroder's Committee Report- accepted in toto.

G.M. 26 of 1919-20-1. Increase in salary up to Rs.6,000, 30 per cent.

11. Increase in salary higher posts averaging, 25 per cent. III. War allowance on increased salary.

19th October, 1920-Higher posts again increased. G.M. 14 of 1920.

28th November, 1920 Non-pensionable bonus of 10 per cent. on all salaries for the year 1920.

G.M. 25 of 1920.

9th August, 1921—I. Salaries of all members of Service in receipt of War allowance permanently increased by such

allowance.

II. Clerical Service on incremental scale.

VIth class to Rs.1,680.

1st class to Rs.7,200.

III. Passage money increased.

IV. Non-pensionable bonus of 15 per cent, on all salaries from 1st January, 1921, to 30th June, 1922.

G.M. 19 of 1921.

18th August, 1922-All higher posts substantially increased by Salaries Commission with retrospective effect from 1st July, 1921.

19th December, 1922-All higher posts substantially in- creased by Salaries ('ominission with restrospective effect from 1st July, 1921.

G.M. 11 and 32 of 1922, 91 of 1922-23.

The result of all such increases has been :—

Posts up to Rs. 7,200-Increased on pre-war figures: from 100 per cent. to 300 per cent.

Higher posts-Increased on pre-war figures. from 25 per cent. to 75 per cent.

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