CO129-533-7 Revision of salaries for European staff of Printing shop at Victoria Gaol 9-1-1931 - 9-3-1931 — Page 2

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Submits recommendations for revised scales

of salaries and requests sanction to make payment

accordingly both for 1930 and 1931.

Noronha and Company are shown as the

Government Printers on e.g. the printed estimates,

but apparently Government printing is also done in

encl.4 to (3) in the jail. There is a statement on record that the

62911/30.

Superintendent reckoned that in 1927 the Government saved $25,000 a year by doing printing work in the

jail. In 1929 a lino type machine was required for current work, so it cannot be merely job printing

of forms etc. that is done. Now it has been decided

to build a new printing shop and sanction is asked

for the following changes of salary scales: -

Existing Scale

1 Principal Irinting officer

Proposed

£380 10 -£400

£450 20 - £470

1 Assistant i̇rincipal Printing officer

£330 - 10- 380

£380 - 15 - £450

3 Irinting officers

£200 - 10 - 320

£230 - 10 - 20

£370

Dim 62912/291

p.20

§120 of Selmins Corman's Report.

As regards the Discipline Staff, salaries

have been raised as proposed in §.120 of the S.C.

report.

These changes therefore seem to be reasonable.

There remains however a doubt whether these

arrangements for Government printing are sound. In

Jaylon it has been found advisable to discontinue

prison labour, which was formerly used in the

Government Printing office. An expert reported on the Ceylon Government I'rinting Department (see Jeylon S. p. 8 (1929)) and I gather that modern practice

emphasizes

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costing

accurate eink (2) skilled labour

(3)

modern machinery

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