CO129-547-10 Memorandum on revision of salaries 1-1-1934 - 31-12-1936 — Page 24

VETERINARY

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8.

For purposes of remuneration veterinary officers

may be compared on the one hand to Medical Officers, unu

on the other hanu to Agricultural Officers, for science

graduates have to undertake four years post graduate training

in veterinary science before appointment to the Colonial

Service, and the total periou occupied by their training,

therefore, approximatus to the period required for the

training of doctors. On the other hand a scholarship scheme

has been instituted to assist canuiuates, who desire to

obtain the necessary qualifications in veterinary science

for admission to the Colonial Service, to bear the expense

of the additional period of post graduate study, and to

that extent Veterinary Officers are more favourably

situated than Medical Officers.

Further, opportunities

for employment outside the Colonial Service in the case of

veterinarians are neither so frequent nor so financially

attractive as those open to medical men. For these reasons

it is considered that the remuneration applicable to

veterinary officers can justifiably be placed on & somewhat

lower scale than that applicable to Medical Officers.

On the other hand veterinary officers will enter

the Service normally two years later than agricultural

officers, and the senior posts to which they can look forwaru

for promotion are in general fewer in number and luso highly

remunerated than those open to agricultural officers. It

is reasonable in these circumstances that they should be

granted an initial rate of salary in excess of that approved

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