CO129-518-6 The vacancy for Deputy Treasurer- salary- and conditions of service 2-10-1929 - 30-1-1930 — Page 7

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Treasurer,

as Chief Accounting Officer of the

Government, is by Colonial Regulations required to

exercise.

It is to be noted that although no member

of the Committee was a Cadet their recommendation was

not that the post of Treasurer should cease to be

held by a Cadet.

I there fore venture to suggest the follow-

ing scheme which is based on the assumption (1) that

the financial expert who is to be now selected to be

Deputy Treasurer at a salary ( 200 per annum) which

is equivalent to the maximum of the Cadets Scale

below Class I should on Mr Messer's retirement be

appointed Treasurer; and (2) that if, in spite of

Mr. Messer's successor, the post of Treasurer were

still to be regarded as normally a Class 1 cadet

post, we should find ourselves back in the old

position of a Cadet without adequate financial and

accounting experience being in charge of the Treasury,

and should again have to appoint a technical Deputy the

Treasurer with or without subsequent reversion to

er

the Treasuryзhip

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My suggestion is that on Mr Messer's

retirement the Deputy Treasurer should be given the

title of Treasurer without increase in salary the

post to be separated from the Cadet Service, and to

be filled always by a trained financial officer.

The post of Deputy Treasurer would lapse. At the

same time, there should be created the appointment

of Financial Secretary to the Government in Class I

of the Cadet Service. The duties of the Treasurer

would