CO129-524-1 Reports of Salaries Commission 31-12-1929 - 27-10-1930 — Page 29

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13 Gov. See

21.6.30

Report's passing of Resolution by Legislative Council to give effect to Salaries Report-

as

modified with

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regard to " high cost of living allowances to officers pard sterling salaries, and (2) retention qualification for rent allowance of local dollar pan

years service

and

offrers

The revised salary scheme has passed

the Legislative Council, all the unofficial

members save two, who being members of the

Salaries Commission abstained from voting,

di ssenting.

The telegram is rather involved,

but it appears that the Government in the

interests of economy conceded the following

points.

1.

Sterling salaries on the revised

scale are to be converted at the current rate

of exchange.

As the dollar depreciates the

effect will be to give more dollars to officers

whose salaries are fixed in sterling, while

the local cost of living has not at present

increased proportionately.

The sterling salaries are held to be

adequate and, pending further consideration of

the question, no addition in the way of high

cost of living allowances is to be paid on them.

2.

The qualification of ten years'

service as a condition precedent to the

drawing of rent allowances by local dollar-paid

officers above the lowest grade is to be

retained.

3.

A personnel retrenchment committee

is to be a pointed.

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