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College Master. The junior Assistant Masters have now the

same number of senior grade posts to which they are eligible

for promotion as they had before and if that created for Mr.

James is included, they have one more. The allowance of 860

is a matter of personal compensation to Mr. James with which

the writers have no concern.

6.

The second ground for complaint is

contained in the fourth paragraph. The argument requires to be

somewhat amplified to render it intelligible and is to the

following effect:-

'It has been declared that, from the

date of fusion of Queen's College with the rest of the

Education Department, all Officers in the unified Department

will be considered for purposes of promotion as being in the

same branch of the service. But before that date promotion

was slower at Queen's College than in the other schools; and

some Masters in other Schools consequently draw higher

salaries than some Masters at Queen's College who yet have

had longer service. If those other Masters are to be pre-

-ferred to the Queen's College Masters when vacancies in the

higher appointments occur, injustice will be done.'

The answer to this purely hypothetic-

-al grievance is that there are no grounds whatever for the

suggestion