CO129-547-10 Memorandum on revision of salaries 1-1-1934 - 31-12-1936 — Page 22

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four classes, and it is desirable in the interests

of the Service generally that appointments in the

second class, which comprise most of the less highly

paid auditorships and the deputy auditorships, should

be filled by officers who have had an opportunity of

ue..onstrating their capacity in posts carrying greater

responsibilities than those normally allocated to

assistant auditors in yast Africa; such intermediate

posts form Class III of the Colonial Audit Department.

On this basis it is apparent, in the first

place that it is necessary that there should be a

sufficient number of appointments in Class III to

proviue a reasonable flow of promotion for officers in

Class IV, and in the second place that the general level

of remuneration attached to Classes II, III and IV

respectively should bear such relation to one another

that promotion from one class to the next will

ordinarily involve a definite financial advantage.

For this purpose it is essential that the East African

salary scheme should provide for a grade of senior

assistant auditors with a scale of salary appropriate to

Class III, i.e. superior to the scale applicable to

officers in Class 1' of the Service, but with a maximum

which (taking into account the provision of free quarters

in East Africa) will not render appointments in Class II

of the Service financially unattractive.

The scale proposed for audit officers has been

framed with special regard to these considerations.

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