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9.

Provision is made for a change in the salary scale for

Sanitary Inspectors. At present there are two classes, Class I

on the scale £370 to £430 by £15 annually, and Class II on the

scale £260 to £350 by five increments of £10 and two of £20.

This classification is now abolished and a through scale substi-

tuted. The new scale will be made retrospective, in the case

of each officer now in service, to the date on which he qualified

for the salary of £300 per annum, but with the proviso that no

officer now in Class II will in 1937 proceed to a salary exceed-

ing £370 per annum.

At present seventeen of the thirty Class II inspectors

are at the maximum salary of their class, and it is unlikely

that more than one vacancy in Class I will occur this year. Prior

to 1932 more vacancies occurred in Class I due to the frequent

transfer of Class I officers to other Departments, but these

conditions have not since prevailed. There is no essential

difference between the duties performed by Class I and Class II

officers and the adoption of a through scale will bring the

Sanitary Department into line with other departments such as the

Public Works Department and Imports & Exports Department where

the principle of a through scale has been in force for some years.

The adoption of this proposal is subject to the consent of the

Secretary of State for the Colonies which has not yet been

received.

Three European Sanitary Inspectors' posts have been

abolished, whilst, in accordance with Governments' policy of

replacing sterling paid officers by locally recruited officers

in subordinate posts, two additional posts of Asiatic Probationer

Sanitary Inspectors have been created.

Further retrenchment is seen in the abolition of two