CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934 — Page 339

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The great difference between a time scale with efficiency

bars and a scheme of classes being, that the former

admits of a good man going forward at any time while the

latter requires the occurrence of a vacancy. As a

start it is proposed to provide for six Class II posts, with a view to appointing two officers in the Secretariat,

two in the Treasury and two at the Magistracies where

Cadet officers are now performing clerical duties for

lack of other staff. The scheme embraces a

Probationary Class III for very junior recruits and a Class I with a salary scale of 44,600 plus $200 to

$5,600. For the immediate relief of the Senior Clerical position, junior recruits are useless and it

will be some years before a member of the new cadre

becomes eligible for Class I. No provision is

therefore being made for either of these categories in

the present Estimates.

The next increase to which I wish to refer is

that in the Assessor's staff of the Treasury on page 19.

Your Excellency when introducing the Budget last year

stated that an officer of the Public Works Department

was being seconded to the Assessor's office. This

transfer is now being made permanent by the creation of

the post of Second Assistant Assessor. There has been

a corresponding reduction in the establishment of

Overseers in the Public Works Department. The

Inspector of Tenements and the Class III officer of the

Senior