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6. We recommend that the rate of exchange for payment of salaries locally shee
A superior officer should not draw any portion of the salary of a junior officer in the
vacancy not being filled up.
be fixed at a 2/- dollar, or at the rate of the day if the dollar falls below that figuesame department when absent, even in cases where extra work is entailed owing to the This is the rate adopted by the leading commercial firms in the Colony.
11. Incidental to leave of absence is the subject of Passages. A return passage to Great Britain, and in particular in the case of a married officer with a family, is a
passage
7. We recommend that, irrespective of a special class comprising certain officers high standing, the officers should be grouped in four classes and two further classes for cadets and (b) for unpassed cadets. These classes are framed with the viewcomplete impediment to leave. We recommend that free passages when on leave be assimilating, as far as circumstances will permit, the number of holders in each cla and to give a reasonable chance of promotion throughout the classes. They compris all cadets and a number of other officers; but do not include certain departments whic from the nature of their emoluments, it has been found impracticable to associate the classes.
granted to an officer and his family in the manner set out in Schedule III. A free should also be granted to an officer and his family in like manner on retirement.
12. We were invited by certain officers to recommend that pensions be granted in the case of all officers after 25 years service and on reaching 50 years of age; and exceptional claims for additional pension were also urged on the ground of the time
We submit in Schedule I a list of classes comprising the names of the offices, involved in acquiring the professional or technical qualifications required before joining the salary recommended in the case of each class.
the service in certain departments. We are unable to make such a recommendation or tropical reasons, in the assessment of pensions. We see no sufficient reason to interfere with the existing system, save as is recommended in the next two succeeding paragraphs.
In Schedule II we append a list of offices comprised in other departments, and to urge any such special consideration having regard to the period, now conceded, for salary recommended in respect of each office.
To this schedule has been added a general grading scheme for clerical and gener establishments.
13. We recoguise the onerous and exacting duties that are placed upon the Nursing Staff in the Government Hospitals, and we recommend that they be allowed to retire
In all cases, except where free quarters are provided, we recommend that officers granted the use either of a house at the rent set out in the schedules appended benin pension at the age of 45 years if they have served a period of 20 years in this or any
or receive a rent allowance of the same amount in lieu of a house.
Our recommendations are based on the assumption that, in regard to increments service already accrued shall count in respect thereof.
8. The proposed scale of salaries has been arrived at after a full consideration! the evidence before us, and represents in our opinion a fair system of remuneration the present greatly altered circumstances of the Colony. The scales represent a approximate increase ranging from 12% on the present total emoluments of the higle, grades to 30% in the case of the lower grades.
other Colony. The pension to be calculated according to the scheme recently sanctioned with regard to the Police Force.
We take the liberty of observing that the Nursing Staff is in our opinion insufficient, and should be augmented so as to allow every sister or nurse one day off duty in every week. Such a respite is essential for the proper discharge of their work.
14. We consider that the members of the Police Force should be entitled to retire ou pension at the age of 45 years provided they have accomplished 20 years service.
15. We desire to represent that in the proposed increase of the salaries of School
A number of individual cases were represented to us where the officer alles Blasters under the Education Department we are of opinion that the duties of their some hardship which called for individual attention. We have, as far as practicale should comprise taking classes at the Technical Institute, or other Government given consideration to these cases in dealing with the proposed emolument of the office and we are unable to recommend any further increment.
cational establishment, without extra remuneration; and our recommendations as to ucreased salaries are based on this assumption. The comparatively short hours of work, and the long period of vacations enjoyed by these officers, are quite without parallel in
9. In regard to house or rent allowances, if we are not travelling beyond the soy other branch of the service. of our province, we would represent that no person, other than an officer, should occup an official house or quarters in conjunction with an officer without the permission of the Government previously obtained, and that if the permission is granted the person ca cerned should pay such rent as the Government may determine.
16. We are of opinion that the duties devolving on the Director of Public Works ill be of vastly increasing importance in the future development of the Colony, and we recommend that in any prospective appointment to that office the salary should be
mensurate with the qualifications of a highly skilled officer.
10. We regard the present conditions attaching to leave of absence as exacting and unsatisfactory. Leave is primarily intended to enable an officer to recruit his headd by change of climate, and a system which only permits of an officer going home fr this far outpost of Empire for three months leave only on fuit pay is in our opinione essential to substantially augment the emoluments of the office. real hardship. We recommend that leave be granted as of right once in every fifth ye of service. The leave to extend to a period of 9 months on full pay, and the absence leave to count as service for
17. We consider in the interests of the public health of the Colony that the with initiative and administrative capacity, and to ensure such a desideratum it would Principal Civil Medical Officer should, apart from his academic qualifications, be endowed
fill
purposes of pension.
18. We desire to recommend that officers who are concerned with the audit or the Expenditure of public moneys should be certificated Chartered Accountants; and are of
This recommendation is irrespective of any short periods of absence from duty pinion that the following positions should be held by certificated Chartered Account- pay, which is regarded as local leave.
An officer acting for a superior officer when on leave should receive the salary lu to an acting officer under the existing regulations from the date of assuming the dutie of such acting appointment,
ants :-
The Auditor and Assistant Auditors.
The Cashier in the Treasury.
The Superintendent of Accounts in the Public Works Department.
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