CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7] — Page 67

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last April with its enclosures advocating that Subordinate

European Officers in the Service of the Colony should

suffer a deduction of 21% per annum from their salaries and

that after 5 years and three months' service, they should

be granted 9 months' half-pay leave with a maximum of 34

free passages, upon the distinct understanding that,

if

this privilege is granted, no acting pay or distribution

of salaries would be permitted. It should be explained

that acting appointments in the Subordinate ranks of the

Civil Service are rarely made and that distribution of

salaries is not frequent.

3.

Your Lordship will observe that

Mr. Messer calculated that on the basis of the Subordinate

Establishment in November, 1908, the cost of the scheme to

Goverment after deducting 24% of the Officers' salaries

would be nil and that the deduction would only amount to

£446 5 8. In their report of 5th. April, the Committee

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notice the possibility of earlier marriages being en-

-couraged by the adoption of the scheme, in which case

the cost would be increased and a larger deduction would

have to be made.

It is probable that this anticipat-

-ion is well founded, but I do not anticipate that the cast

would