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three weeks' full pay leave in respect of each year. will also be eligible for half pay leave (which may be commuted) at the rate of four weeks in respect of each year. This will be in addition to the casual leave of twelve days
during any one year accorded by General Order No. 174.
8.
Some concession is also, I consider, required
in the kindred matters of passage privileges.
It
At present, as local officers, these ladies are not eligible for any assistance in respect of passages. is now proposed that after a minimum of ten years' service
and at intervals of five years thereafter they shall be allowed free second class passages to the United Kingdom
and back.
This again is of the nature of a compromise which
if not entirely logical is the most that the financial position
will allow and has a certain justification in the facts.
Candidates for the posts of lady stenographers are for the most part daughters of local residents who may reasonably be expected to bear the cost of their childrens' passages
during the early years of their service. Later on however
it is to be expected that the parents may on account of
retirement or otherwise be less able to bear these charges,
and a measure of assistance becomes justifiable.
I may add that our experience so far has been
that the attractions of matrimony have proved so superior to
those of Government Service as to make any large expenditure
under the proposed new rule improbable. Conversely a lady.
who has remained ten years in the service may be assumed to
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