CO129-375 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [1-2] — Page 284

scheme is entitled to have the salary of

any appointment, to which he may be promot-

ed, fixed in dollars, but that does not imply

that it is necessary to create a salary, stat-

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of sterling salaries, which in para-

graph 3 of my despatch No.75 of the

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9th of March I have suggested should

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ed in dollars, for such a post, unless it is

one that was not in existence when the sterl-

ing scheme was framed.

This is not the case in

the present instance. The post of Deputy

Superintendent of Police was in existence

before the sterling scheme was framed and

the salary then attached to it, $3600 ris-

ing to $4200 by triennial increments of

$300, is that which must be drawn by an

any

officer in receipt of a dollar salary, who

is appointed to it.

3. If, therefore, I had been able to

approve the appointment of Mr Hallifax to be

Deputy Superintendent, it would have been on

the condition that he would either receive

salary at this rate in dollars or would exer-

cise the option of accepting the new scale

be given to existing officers.

4.

It would clearly not be to

Ir Hallifax's advantage to accept the

dollar salary and as in the same des-

patch, paragraph 6, I have approved

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the proposal that elifaxh

present post should be placed in

Class II of the sterling scheme, he

will, if he now decides to accept a

sterling salary, be practically as

well off in his present post as he

would be as Deputy Superintendent of

Police.

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5. part, however, from this

question of salary I regret that I am

unable to approve the suggestion that

Mr Hallifax should succeed Captain

of

Lyons.

In paragraph 8 of my despatch No.

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