CO129-546-3 Post Office Department- re-organisation of Mails Branch 4-12-1933 - 30-10-1934 — Page 22

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Superintendent of Mails. In 1927 when the new Senior

Clerical and Accounting Staff was organized as a

separate branch of the service, all officers on sterling

salaries who were discharging clerical or quasi-clerical

duties were fitted into the new branch at suitable points

and with them Mr. Lay who was placed sixth in Class III

with a salary of £240 in the then scale of £200 £10 -

£350. It is, however, essential to the working of the

new branch that its members below the special appointments

shall be available for transfer among the departments

to meet the exigencies of long leave and as Mr. Lay's

duties in the Post Office would not permit of his being

so treated, he was in 1930 re-assigned definitely to the

closed establishment of the Post Office where his

revised salary as Assistant Superintendent of Mails

(£250 - £445 by varying increments) is the same as that

of Class III of the Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff.

In the meantime, however, four of the officers who were

above him when in Class III have either retired or died

and the fifth has been promoted to Class II (£460 - £20

£560) as has also another officer who was placed below

Mr. Lay in 1927. There is no reason why, a new

Superintendent having been secured, Mr. Lay should not

in due course be considered for the Deputyship. In

the meantime, however, I am of opinion that there are

good grounds for some compensation to Mr. Lay for loss

of prospects by retention in the closed department of

the Post Office, and I accordingly recommend that he

be granted, with effect from 1st January 1934, a personal

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