CO129-534-2 Correspondence and reports of Salarie's Report Anomalies Committee 22-1-1931 - 13-7-1932 — Page 58

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on the Salaries Report was confined to the

retention of the 10 years service qualification

and left untouched the changes in rates recommended by the Report. In this belief we were at very

considerable pains to draft a workable scheme for

the application of the new allowances. It has

now been decided that paragraphs 180 and 181 of the Salaries Report are to be regarded as wholly

abrogated and our scheme does not therefore

require further consideration.

Nevertheless

we think it may be useful to record three of its

points, namely:-

(a) For the class of employee most conveniently described by the term "Labour" no scheme of

rent allowances is workable which varies the

allowance with the actual family circumstances

of the employee.

(b) Government is not called upon to provide

married quarters for female employees of this

class or to grant any allowance where, as is

practically always the case, single quarters

are provided. It seems to us absurd, for

instance, that Government should be expected

to contribute towards the housing of the

husbands

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