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these posts.

29.

POST OFFICE.

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I should be inclined to accept the figures

proposed by the Commission in all the cases to which Mr.

Severn refera.

30.

IMPORTS AND EXPORTS DEPARTMENT,

I think the alaries proposed by the

Commission are adequate.

31.

I agree with Mr. Severn that the salaries proposed by the Commission for Public Works Department Overseers, Land Bailiffs, Sanitary Inspectors and the Inspector of Stores, Public Works Department, may be accept-

-ed.

32.

The observations contained in the pre- -ceding paragraphs cover the Commission's report down to the end of page 10. The remaining pages of the report deal Clerical and General. with a large number of minor posts

It seems clear that the scales to be adopted for these posts should be regulated primarily, as the Commission suggesta, by the rates paid to the Clerical Service. On beginning to investigate the position of this service I have been struck by the necessity of a reorganization as regards methods of recruiting and classification and in other respecte in order to put matters on a sound basis. In order to do this satisfactorily a considerable amount of investigation would be needed and if I were to hold back this despatch until I was able to advise on this matter the settlement of the salaries of the other grades of the service would be delay- -ed for a considerable further period a result which would be most undesirable. I propose therefore that for the present the officers referred to in page 11 et segg of the Commission's report should continue to draw their existing salaries with the 20 per cent allowance now paid.

33.

I suggest that the revised scales of

salaries