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exchange involves would be a sufficiently disquieting situation for any Government to face in a single

financial year.

The second factor to be considered is the

revised scales of salaries which are now in force as a

result of the recommendations of the recent Salaries

Commission.

These were fully debated by this Council in June last and it is unnecessary for me to make further comment thereon. While leaving salaries

as settled Government has however set up a very influential and energetic Retrenchment Commission to investigate not only how far the personnel is justified by the volume of work performed but also to what extent economies may be effected in other

directions.

The establishment of the Retrenchment

Commission constituted another influence on the policy

It

of the Government while framing the Estimates.

is natural that the major part of the work of the Commission should be a consideration of the personnel, and confusion might well have resulted if the same work had been tackled from opposite sides. reductions of course the Government was ready to make, and wherever possible recruiting arrangements already

Obvious

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