Messer, Captain Superintendent of Police, whose present salary is 86,000 per annum with 8900 house allowance, and from Mr. E. D. C.
Wolfe, Postmaster-General, whose present salary is $5,100 plus £100 from the Imperial Post Office per annum. These officers and their wives are very careful house-keepers with no expensive
413 habits. Mr. Messer especially lives very economically. Both
officers keep careful accounts of their domestic expenditure. Mr. Messer's statement shows that on his present salary he is barely able to provide for periodical passages to England and that he is unable to save anything. It is true that he will in due course attain the salary of $7,200 per annum. But the education of his 2
boys will absorb more than the increase.
Mr. Wolfe's statement, which is complicated for
reasons that he has explained, shows that under normal conditions he estimates his monthly expenditure at not less than $800 per
mensen. From my om experience I know that an officer in his position residing at the Peak, which is the only fit place for European
children, with a wife and 2 children (aged and 2 years respective- -ly) as he has, must live very carefully to keep his expenditure
as low as the figure mentioned.
3.
I have, therefore, to recommend the following
scheme of house allowances for married European Officers in the category indicated who have not less than 10 years pensionable
service:-
Class I. Officers in receipt of salaries of
£800 per annum and over....
Class II. Officers in receipt of salaries
from £600-£800 per annum...
Class III. Officers in receipt of salaries
of less than £600 per annum.......
.81,800 p.a.
.81,200 p.a. ¦
8720 p.a.
I place the limit at 10 years service because I do not wish to
encourage junior officers to marry, and I advocate in this case a
scheme
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