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Council bofore the recommendations were sont further,

and received their approval. The largest addition of this kind is the grant of allowances on a sliding scale to compensate for the fall of the dollar below half-a-crown to Goverment servants ordinarily

recruited at home. The total which it is estimated

is involved is to be found on page 100 under Head 34, s.1.47 Miscellaneous Services - Exchange Compensation Allowances, $350,000. Further it has been deemed

necessary to meet recruiting difficultics which were being encountered by raising the scale of salaries for the earlier years of service: the differences on this account will be found under the separate heads.

The initial salarios of Cadets have boon

The

raised from £350 to £375, of Police Probationers

from £325 to $350 and of Schoolmasters from £400 to

£425, with increments so arranged that the salaries fit again to the oxisting scale in the later stages.

5. When the publication of those concessions

was recently made, much criticism was aimed at the

apparent neglect of the claims of the rest of the

Government servants and a Petition by the Junior Clerical Staff appeared in the local papers. reply to that Petition was also published and in

this connection I would add that referencc to

Appendix 2 pago 104 will show that the new

organisation of the Junior Clerical service is

estimated to cost $726,021 in 1929 as against $621,867 in 1928. We thus got an expenditure on this service increased by $104,154 of which $25,050

is duc to necessary increase in numbers, $19,565

to