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Marine Surveyor, Singapore, who corresponds with the Second
Assistant in Hongkong, £360 rising to £420 by similar increments,
and that all three officers are now presumably in receipt of duty
pay allowances.
3.
The Harbour Easter states that he "concurs* in
Mr. Macdonald's letter, and in regard to the salary of the two
junior posts he writes:- "Mr. Russell, who has completed 7 years'
"service, was recently promoted from the position of Second
"Assistant to that of First Assistant without any increase to his
"pay, both posts being in the same grade of sterling salary. He
*has been drawing his maximum salary since September, 1910. The
"maximum dollar salary drawn by his predecessor, Mr. Crake, was
*83,000 which at 3/- is equal to £450 or £30 more than he (Mir.
"Russell) draws."
4.
There can be no doubt that the duties of the
Government Marine Surveyor and his two Assistants in this Colony
are more onerous than in the case of the officers who are charged
with similar duties in Singapore. In view of this fact, and of the
opinion of the Harbour Master I have the honour to recommend that
in the Estimates of the Harbour Department for 1913 the following
scale
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