CO129-547-10 Memorandum on revision of salaries 1-1-1934 - 31-12-1936 — Page 21

AUDIT.

6. The Director of Colonial Audit has

strongly represented that Audit Officers should in

the earlier years of their service be granted the same

scale of salary as Administrative Officers. He points

out that Audit Officers are now recruited from the same

general fielu as Administrative Officers, and that

candidates for appointment to the Audit Department are

required to conform generally to the same standard of

personality and educational attainment. The Audit

Service offers a less interesting career and less

favourable ultimate prospects of promotion than the

Administrative Service, and if to these disadvantages is

added a lower scale of remuneration in the early stages,

the prospects of recruiting Audit Officers of the

required stamp, particularly when normal conditions

return, will be seriously jeopardised.

In these circumstances it is proposed that

Audit Officers should be placed on the same initial

scale of salary as Administrative Officers. On the

other hand the promation bar is placed at the normal

point in the standard "Ordinary Civil" scale, viz:

£750, and the scale applicable to the next higher

grade viz. that of Senior Assistant Auditor is placed

at £780 £900. These proposals have been made with

reference to the special position of Auuit Officers.

The Colonial Auuit Department, of which they are members,

is a single organised service under the general direction

of the Director of Colonial Audit, which covers most

Colonial dependencies, and Audit Officers in general

have much greater opportunities in the ordinary course

of events for promotion by transfer than officers in

other departments, and expect in the course of their

service to be moved more frequently. Audit appointments

are for the purposes of the common service divided into

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