(2) That the general position of world prices is likely
to remain, if not at its present level, at any rate at a
level well below that prevailing when the present scales
were devised; from this it may be argued that the general
level of salaries which will be required by the coming
generation of officers will be substantially lower than
that required by those recruited in the past who have
entered into commitments on the basis of conditions as they
existed before the onset of the depression.
(3) That, in the absence of a spectacular rise
in trade and employment generally, competition in the
recruiting market for candidates of the type which the
Colonial Administrative Service seeks to secure will not
be so keen as to justify the offering of specially
attractive terms. Moreover, recruitment for the Colonial
Service is never likely to be on se large a scale as in the
past, and the prestige of the Service as a career should
have been greatly strengthened by the measures which have
been taken to maintain recruitment at a time when so many
other avenues of employment were closed.
The first of these assertions is not likely
to be disputed; it may however be pointed out that economy does not necessarily imply a reduction of salaries but
may be achieved in other ways.
Further reference to this
point will be made later. As regards the second, whether
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or not it represents the facts which time alone can show
such enquiries as it has been possible to make at the main
recruiting centres indicate that the point is not one which
is at present seriously entering into the calculations of
candidates themselves or their advisers; nor is any
information available to show that other services, etc.,
which recruit in the same field, have been led by any such
assumption
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