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date so as to enable those on the waiting list to start work
and training this year, in which case a Supplementary Vote for
the necessary expenditure will be requested. The only other
point that calls for mention under this section is the revision
of the salary scale of the Quartermaster of the land corps. It
will be recalled that a few years ago a personal allowance of
€50 per annum was granted to the present holder of this pust.
It is now felt that the responsibilities of the post itself
call for higher emoluments and it is accordingly proposed that
the salary scale shall be continued beyond the £470, which
was the former maximum, to £600. The present hulder will enter
the scale at a point which will cover his personal allowance
which therefore disappears from the Estimates.
In connection with the other sectiun, Military
Contribution, it gives me great pleasure to be able to announce
that after prolonged negotiation with the War Office, the
Secretary of State for the Colonies has secured for the Colony
very material increases in the items of revenue exempt from
contribution. I need not enter here upon the details of these
exemptions which are to a certain extent retrospective and
will reduce the expenditure for the current year. They have been embodied in a draft amending Ordinance which is now
before the Secretary of State and will when approved by him
be introduced into this Council in the usual way. In addi-
tion to relieving the annual expenditure, the concessions
should also release a certain portion of the liability under
this head which appears as a Suspense Account in the
financial statement.
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