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with instructions to inspect and report upon the line once
a year. These conclusions are of course largely based on the
trend of the negotiations in regard to the Working Agreement.
On this subject I shall address you later, but it is, I regret
to say, already abundantly clear that for some time at any
rate we shall have to provide a full Staff and work the
British Section practically as a separate concern.
3.
To the post of Engineer in charge of
Ways and Works I propose to appoint Mr. Baker on the follow-
-ing terms:
(i.) Salary £480 to £600 by £40 triennially i.e.
that of an Executive Engineer in the Public Works Department, but the maximum of the post to be allowed from the beginning.
(ii.) Service for pension to date from commencement
of duty on permanent staff, viz.:- from date
of his arrival on return from leave.
(iii.) No allowance except free conveyance on the
Railway.
4.
Mir. Baker is reported to have done
waka me
"good and steady work" during his long service on the Railway,
and he has therefore a strong claim to be recompensed in the
manner as serbs Mir. Logan and others. I therefore propose
on termination of the present agreement to grant him a bonus
of
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