have been made on points of detail, which will have to be
considered in due course.
In any reconsideration of the question which
may be necessary in the light of changed circumstances, it
is evident that a clear distinction ought to be made
between special and temporary measures designed to assist
a Colony in dealing with its immediate financial emergencies,
and permanent revisions of salary scales which will cover
a long period of years, and which require the most
careful thought in relation to their possible repercussions
upon the efficiency of the Service and the maintenance
of an adequate standard of recruitment. The immediate
necessities of the situation have been met in most Colonies
by the imposition of a temporary levy which does not involve
any alteration of the basic scale of salary.
The question
to be considered in connection with any permanent revision
is whether there have been such general changes affecting
the whole assumptions upon which the existing scales and the
synthetic scale proposed in the unification scheme are
based, as will justify the conclusion that, for the next 10,
20 or 30 years, some different standard of remuneration
should properly be adopted with due regard, on the one hand,
to the financial position of the territories concerned and,
on the other hand, to the necessity for attracting to
the Service and maintaining in reasonable contentment
officers of the type required.
On general grounds it is evidently very
desirable that any revisions of a permanent character
should not take place until the world economic position
has stabilised to such an extent as enables a clear
answer to be given to the question whether or not the
salary
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