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Staff to introduce it. The actual effect of the new scale

in these three Departments has been, as shown in Table 'B',

an increase of $5,304 in the total minimum salaries and an

increase of $8,424 in the total maximum salaries. I assume

for purposes of calculating the permanent annual cost that

each clerk has earned half the total increments of the

grade in which he is placed. On this assumption the per-

-manent increase is approximately $6,850 per annum.

3.

The proposed salaries as given in

Table 'C' show a similar minimum increase of $9,024 and a

maximum increase of $10,752, giving upon my above assump-

-tion a total approximate increase of $9,900 per annum.

These salaries are of course tentative only and will be

liable to modification according to the circumstances of

the introduction of the scheme in the various Departments.

4.

It will be noticed that the in-

-crease already sanctioned is somewhat greater in propor-

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-tion to the number of posts than the increase proposed,

but for the reasons given in my Confidential Despatches of

the 8th and 27th. March it was considered necessary in the

case of the Post Office and the Harbour Office to grant a

general increase of pay, for which in the case of the other

Departments