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scheme of the sort for extra remuneration was

justified.

In view, however, of the

Commission's report the Governor recommended that

the grade of Executive Engineer with 8 appointments

on the scle of £1180 to £1,300 should be revived

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a grade intermediate to that of Engineer and

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Assistant,Department of Public Works.

For the

appointment of Technical Secretary to the Depart-

ment of Public Works he recommends that the salary

should be on the Executive Engineer's scale

unless and until the present holder can be

absorbed in the establishment of 8 Executive

Engineers.

SUPERINTENDENT OF CROWN LANDS AND SUPERINTENDENT OF SURVEYS.

These Officers also draw charge allowance

and if they are to be abolished the Governor

recommends that the maximum of their scales should

rise by one further increment to £1,240. For

the 1st Assistant Superintendent of Crown Lands he

advocates a revised maximum of £1,050 instead of

£1,020 subject to reconsideration when the post

next falls vacant.

GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.

The Governor assumes that the existing

staff will as a rule enter the new scales at the

point justified by their length of service on

their existing scales and he recommends that an

Officer who has been three years in a given grade

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should be pensionable on revised salary and not

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the average of his revised and unrevised salaries

even