CO129-547-10 Memorandum on revision of salaries 1-1-1934 - 31-12-1936 — Page 11

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The raising of the former to 55 in Dependencies where

it has previously been 50 may justify consideration of

lengthening the time-scale so as to reduce the period

for which the unpromoted officer would serve at the

maximum. The reduction of the pension fraction for

Tropical Africa to th would raise the question

whether the maximum pensionable emoluments of officers

on the time-scale should be increased in order to

mitigate the effect upon the actual pension to be drawn.

Both these considerations strengthen the case for main-

taining the maximum salary of the time-scale at £1,000,

as recommended by the Warren Fisher Committee and in the

unification scheme, even if this should render necessary

some compensating reduction in the number of existing

super-scale posts. Again, it is necessary to repeat

that the salary scale is only part of a general scheme

of conditions of service, and that the adoption of the

standard scale proposed for the unified service cannot

be recommended unless accompanied by adoption not only

of the pension system, but of the other standard terms

embodied in the unification scheme.

Finally, while it is for the Governor in each

Dependency to form his opinion and to advise the

Secretary of State as to the necessities of the local

financial situation and as to the reasonable require-

ments of officers, having regard to the cost of living

and other local circumstances, it is the Secretary of State who, in addition, has to judge the general recruiting situation and to assume responsibility for maintaining the

quality of the Colonial Administrative Service and other

branches. It is his duty to resist any tendency which

might result in lowering the standard of the Service.

The Colonies cannot afford to offer terms which fall

below