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Correspondence, and Stores in that Department, and whose post

was included in the Sterling Salaries Scheme, went on leave,

his duties were divided between Mr. Julyan the First Clerk,

and certain other Clerks as explained in a letter from the

Director of Public Works, copy attached, and it became a

question whether Mr. Julyan and the others, who were not en-

titled to Exchange Compensation, were to be allowed to draw

Mr. Woolapsing half-salary in Sterling, or Dollars without

Exchange Compensation. I decided that in such cases the acting

officer should draw half the Dollar Salary of his substantive

post and half the Sterling Salary of the post in which he was

acting. In this particular case the half of Mr. Wood's Ster-

ling Salary was apportioned between the Officers who are

doing his work.

4.

In arriving at this decision I was guided

by the principle laid down in paragraph 8 of your Despatch

5050 No. 16 of 16th. January last where it is laid down that the

salaries of all non-clerical posts over $1,200 should be fixed

in Sterling irrespective of whether the incumbent be a local

man or not.

I directed moreover that the payment

should be made in Sterling because the Dollar Salaries drawn

by the incumbents of various posts included in the Sterling

Salaries Scheme are ephemeral and of the nature of salaries

personal to those officers who, being given the option, decided

not to accept Sterling rates. In the course of time Dollar

Salaries will cease to be attached to posts within the Sterling

Salaries Scheme and it would be inconvenient and undesirable

to fix Dollar Salaries for all such posts merely to meet the

case of acting officers like Mr. Julyan and the others.