CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12] — Page 312

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the two senior assistants in the Colonial Audit Depart- ment, and have comparatively long service. Both are married men with young families, and had hoped that in view of the long time taken for consideration of the salaries that these would have been sufficient to do

away with the financial anxieties which continually

confront them.

the

17.

We humbly and mostly respectfully inform you that it had been hoped that/new salaries scheme of 1920 would

have abolished, what we consider, the unfavourable and

partial salary scheme of 1911 which we have ever held to

be contrary to the tenets of the precepts of the Report

of the Colonial Audit Committee.

18. We beg to submit that we have all at times had to

abrogate our personal feelings and desires, although at

a sacrifice to ourselves, for what has been impressed

upon us as the welfare of the service, and it will be

seen from the records of our services that in the past

we have willingly served His Majesty's Government in any

colony to which we have been sent however unhealthy the

climate. But we think that it may justly be held that

if we had had any idea of the treatment that we have

received in the past, or is now proposed to be meted out

to ourselves and our families in the future we should

never have given up our rights in 1910 as members of the

Exchequer and Audit Department to join the Colonial Audit

Department, or we should have done as large numbers of

our colleagues have done in the past and transferred to

financial or administrative posts in other Colonies.

19.

We humbly submit that we fail to comprehend why we

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