CO129-547-10 Memorandum on revision of salaries 1-1-1934 - 31-12-1936 — Page 4

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The Colonial Administrative Service.

Lemorandum prepared in the Colonial Office regarding

the effect of recent economic developments upon the

proposals for a unified time-scale.

It will be recollected that the scheme for the

unification of the Colonial Administrative Service

circulated early in 1932 included provision for a basic

time-scale as follows:

Class III $400 x 320 £480 x £30 - £600;

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Class II

£660 x 330

£840;

Class I

2880 x £AO

£1,000;

with efficiency bars at £600 and £840.

This scale, which covers a period of 20 years,

was evolved, as explained in the unification scheme, with

the idea of fitting in as easily as possible all the

existing scales with their divergencies.

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was, of course, considered with reference to the scales

existing and to conditions prevailing before the general

economic depression became a serious factor in dealing

with matters of this kind, and before, as a result of

that depression, the question of salaries had been

examined by special Commissioners, or by local Retrenchment

Committees, in various Colonies with a view to the

effecting of any possible economy.

Nevertheless, the

proposal has met with fairly general acceptance so far

as concerns those Colonies which employ large numbers of

officers on the "time-scale"; though various suggestions

have

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