CO129-534-2 Correspondence and reports of Salarie's Report Anomalies Committee 22-1-1931 - 13-7-1932 — Page 59

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husbands (if any) of the amahs employed in the

hospitals.

(c) It is desirable that the salary limit

At

exempting from the 10 years' rule (cf.G.0. 110.A(2).) should be a scale and not a fixed figure. present a (revised) figure of $480 has been adopted, but certain officers have salaries "straddling this point and might therefore, having drawn a rent allowance for several years, become disqualified for any allowance during the next few years of their service, being above $480 but not having ten years' total service. The limit might be either a scale of which the minimum or one of which the maximum

does not exceed a certain figure. After due

consideration we think it best to a dopt the formula

"Salary scales of which the maximum is less

than $480 per annum".

78. In the course of our enquiries we come

upon a number of cases in which officers of

this class eligible for rent allowances were not receiving any allowance and a few of the opposite

nature. These are set out in Appendix II. "e recommend that in these, as in any other cases of a similar nature that may have escaped our notice, the rules should be strictly applied according to eligibility but we do not advocate either

retrospective grants of allowances withheld or

refunds