CO129-534-2 Correspondence and reports of Salarie's Report Anomalies Committee 22-1-1931 - 13-7-1932 — Page 45

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rule laid down in paragraph (i) of the Observations

on the Salaries Report published in Sessional Paper No.

3 of 1930.

The

The facts are that in 1927 the salary scales in

this Department were, as the Report mentions (paragraph

146), altered and improved, the main features being an

increase in the minimum and maximum and the abolition

of classes in favour of through-scales.

European Masters were transferred to the increment in the new scales next above their existing salaries.

Thus Mr. Handyside having reached the top of Class II

(£600) in 1925, was transferred in 1927 to £625.

Allotment of salary in the present revision has

corresponded step for step with the positions resulting from the earlier revision and it is against this that Mr. Handy side protests claiming

that he should count all his service towards

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increments in his present scale. We cannot agree

with him: for not only was he carried over the haït

at the top of Class II by the 1927 revision but his

maximum was raised from £700 £800 and we consider

that the Director of Education is correct in

treating the scale-positions resulting from the 1927

revised scale as the basis for allotment of salaries

under the present revision. Further we would

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