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training which, in the circumstances, must be reckoned

as service.

(iii) That the allowance paid to the applicants dur ing

training was equal to the initial salary of the

substantive post, £460 per annum.

In connection with ground No.(iii) I would refer to Your

Lordship's despatch No.520 dated 9th December, 1929, where

it is intimated that the rate should be £500 per annum plus

bonus at the rate payable to Civil Servants in England; but

this decision appears to be based on incorrect representations

from the Board of Trade which seems to have been under the

impression that the existing scale of allowance was only £3

s.d. a week plus 5/- a day.

3.

It is obvious that in normal cases periods of

preliminary training cannot be allowed to count as service and that qualification for increments must commence with salary proper. But on the other hand, it is normally the rule that the allowance payable to the officer in training (e.g. Land Surveyors and Schoolmasters) shall be substantially

less than the initial salary of his prospective post.

4.

On the whole therefore I would recommend to

Your Lordship that these particular officers should be allowed to reckon their service as commencing with their preliminary training. But I would suggest that unless the Board of Trade follows a different policy in respect of its own recruits the training-allowance should in future be clearly distinguished from salary and that it should be made

plain to the officers that their service commences with

actual salary.

I have the honour to be, My Lord,

Your Lordship's most obedient,

humble servant,

w.d. Southor

Officer Administering the Government.