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of the staff of the Public Works Department.

to

I am inclined

Though I a concur in the view of the Director of Public Works that

the Assistant Engineers.

arc

inadequately paid, I regret

" that I

am

unable to recom.

mend the increases

as

proposed,

I do not consider the

circumstances of the Colony are such as to justify

6 justify_in_

creases in salaries at the

present time.

It is only right also to

point out that the Retrench- ment Committee which has

only recently finished its~ enquiries into the expenditure "the Public Works Department,

of

while calling attention to the large cost of the staff of that department made no recom. to increasing

mendations

لمان

the salaries of any of the ~ officers mentioned by the Director of Public Works.

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