CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5] — Page 367

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officers: (b) the equivalent in sterling of the salaries

of the former at 3/- to the dollar: (c) the scale I now

recommend: (d) the salary of the equivalent post in the

Straits Settlements in sterling.

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Your Lordship will observe that

this Table contemplates a revision of the classification,

the District Officer being placed in Class II a grade to

which the responsibility of the post in my opinion

entitles him. I contemplate that the Official Receiver

who has also the large and responsible work of Trade Marks

and Patents will eventually be included in this class. I

have left the sterling salaries of Deputy Superintendent

of Folice and Assistant Superintendent of Police at their

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present figures because when these salaries were paid in

sterling they were made higher than the equivalent of the

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Dollar Salaries ($3,600 $4,200 and $2,400

$3,000

respectively) converted at 3/- to the dollar; but in view

of the fact that Mr. Chamberlain in his Despatch No. 171

-2 of the 13th. June, 1902, placed these two posts in Classes

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II on a sterling basis I would ask whether Your Lordship

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desires them to be kept in that classed.

I propose that the post of

Assistant District Officer should be fixed in sterling in

Class