CO129-558-8 Revision of salaries 19-8-1936 - 11-2-1937 — Page 19

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The actual position is as follows:

Administrative Scale.

Residential allowance starts in

the fifth year.

Public Works Scale fourth year.

Medical Scale third year.

Legal Scale third year.

Educational Scale in the third year.

Polici scall

In the police in the ninth year.

Audit scale

In the Audit in the third year.

I have discussed this with Mr. Gent,

who suggests that the differentiation may arise

from differences in the normal average age at

which officers are appointed to the various

services: it seems reasonable that an allowance,

which is intended to recognise the expense to which

an officer is put on account of social duties, should

not be payable to the youngest officers, and should

be increased as an officer's position in the

service tends to involve him in more entertaining

etc. But it is difficult on that basis to

account for the differentiation between the

Administrative and Educational Scales.

point might be put to the Governor but it is

suggested that the final decision should be

left to him since, the factors which govern the

grant of the allowance are local factors which

can hardly appreciate here.

The

Sir G. Tomlinson directed me to

recirculate the paper for consideration of the

above