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their services gratis, partly
tecore
on accouut
of
the training they receive, but also, and especially, in the hope of eventually obtaining employment. the Indian Post Office
ent. In
there are hundreds
of these unpaid assistructs, and I gather from a recent report by the Postincestor General of India that their service.
effect a great saving Treasury. The
to the Indian.
has been the case
here. One of the wort efficient officers of this Oxpartinent worked have more than four years for nothing before he obtained a salary.
6.
if
It is necessary, however, this probationer system is to continue, that the patience of those who have been giving.
their
their services to the public should sometimes be rewarded by admission
to the paid Staff of the Office. For this -reason I venture to suggest a resdistribution
-salaries according
of-sal
to the scheue set
out below. You will observe that no
increase
of expenditure is involved,
though three new officers, Monat ? C. Barradas, Gutierrez, and Franco.. are admitted into the Department. These
As
gentlemen have been serving probationers betivoen two and
three
years, and I have
every
reason to be satisfied with their Conduct and abilities. It would
have been quite impossible to carry
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the service without their,
The scheme of redistribution which
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