otherwise than satisfied with the manner in which I have discharged those responsible duties.
3. I therefore venture to trespass upon your kindness by soliciting that His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government may be moved to transfer the Third Clerkship in the Treasury to Class III in the Clerical Service, thus allowing me the benefit of an enhanced salary, with increments.
7. In support of this application, I beg to call attention to the following facts.
3. To 1895, when the office was held by my predecessor (who afterwards resigned his appointment owing to insufficient pay), the salary of the post, as well as those of the Second and Assistant Clerks, was fixed at $110 per month, thus placing the three posts on the same footing, or the same class. Early last year, the Second and the Assistant Clerks made a joint application to Government for increase, and were successful in obtaining $120 per annum each. I, unfortunately, did not join in that application, with the result that my salary remained at $110. When the classification of salaries came to be considered, the Committee found that I was drawing less pay than the Second and the Assistant Clerks, and placed my post in the next lower class (the 4th), thus involving a loss to me, as compared with my colleagues, of $25 per mensem in 1901 and this year, and subsequent increments, and this, too, at a time when expenses of every description have risen from 50 to 75 per cent of what they were some years back. I cannot but feel that I have been placed at a serious pecuniary disadvantage in comparison with the Second and the Assistant Clerks, and I therefore entertain the hope that, when this point is brought to the notice of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, His Excellency will do me justice.
9.* I beg to call attention to the fact that in 1894 the Retrenchment Committee, who had very carefully and minutely investigated into the working of this office and whose recommendations were approved by the Secretary of State in regard to salaries of subordinate members of the Service generally, recommended the salary of the post now held by me to be $125 to $150 per mensem (please see page VII of their Report), and that I am now drawing the minimum salary recommended, without any increment.
10. A comparison with the salaries of the clerks in the Colonial Secretary's Office will show how unfavourably I am placed in the classification, for, whereas the 3rd and 4th Clerks in that department will be within that class next year, and the 5th Clerk requires four years by annual increments to reach $130 to $1,300 per annum, then being transferred to Class III, I am, as 3rd Clerk in the Treasury, placed in Class IV with a stationary salary of $135 per month. Though I have now over eight years' service and am performing very
7
20
otherwise than satisfied with the manner in which I have discharged those responsible duties.
3.
I therefore venture to trespass upon your
kindness by soliciting that His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government may be moved to transfer the Third Clerkship in the Treasury to Class III in the Clerical Service, thus allowing me the benefit of an enhanced salary, with increments.
7.
In support of this application, I beg to
call attention to the following facts.
3.
To 1995, when the office was held by my predecessor (who afterwards resigned his appointment owing to insuf- ficient pay), the salary of the post, as well as those of the Second and Assistant Clarks, was fixed at 110 per month, thus placing the three posts on the same footing, or the same class. Early last year, the Second and the Assistant Clerks made a joint application to Government for increase, and were successful in obtaining $120 per annum each. I, unfortunately, did not join in that application, with the result that my salary remained at $110. When the classification of salaries came to be consilered, the Connittee found that I was drawing less pay than the Second and the Assistant Clerks, and placed my post in the next lower class (the 4th.), thus involving a loss to me, as compared with my colleagues, of $25 per mensem in 1901 and this year, and subsequent increments, and this, too, at a time when expenses of every description have risen from 50 to 75 per cent of cannot but feel that, I have been what they were some years back. placed at a serious pecuniary disadvantage in comparison with the Second and the Assistant Clerks, and I therefore entertain the hope that, when this point is brought to the notice of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, His Excellency will do me justice.
i
9.*
I beg to call attention to the fact that in 1994 the Retrenchment Committee, who had very carefully and minutely investigated into the working of this office and whose recommen la- tions were approved by the Secretary of State in regard to salaries of subordinate members of the Service generally, recommended the salary of the post now held by me to be $125, to $150 per mensen (please see page VII of their Report), and that I am now drawing the minimam salary recommended, without any increment,
10.
A comparison with the salaries of the clerks in the Colonial Secretary's Office will show how unfavourably I am placed in the classification, for, whereas the 3rd. and 4th. Olerks in that department will be
being them withing
·
that class aire des salary in Class III next year, and the 5th. · Olark requires four years by annual increments of $130 to $1,300 per annum, then being transferred to Class III), I am, as 3rd. Clerk in the Treasury, placed in Class IV with a stationary salary of $135. per month. Though I have now over eight years' service and an performing
very
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.