CO129-558-8 Revision of salaries 19-8-1936 - 11-2-1937 — Page 44

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4.

One of the main difficulties in dealing

with Colonial Audit Department transfers and

promotions in the past has been the existence in West

Africa of one continuous "long scale" rising (subject

to the passing of efficiency bars) from £400 or £450

to £920 for Assistant Auditors (Class IV of the

Colonial Audit Department Service), whereas in East

Africa and in other Colonies there were two grades :

(a) Assistant Auditor on a scale rising (in East

Africa) to £720 (Class IV) and

(b) a Senior Assistant Auditor grade, which was in

Class III of the Colonial Audit Department Service

and was filled by promotion from Class IV.

5. The recent regrading of West African scales,

by which the "long scale" for Assistant Auditors has

been replaced by two grades :

Senior Assistant Auditors on £840

Assistant Auditors

remove this difficulty.

£920 and

on £400

-

£810, will

It would be regrettable if

the difficulty were to be perpetuated by its being

introduced into the Hong Kong grading. The Hong Kong

grading has hitherto been anomalous, for it has

provided for two grades of Assistant Auditor, one grade

corresponding in scale of salary to Assistant

Auditors of other Colonies, and a higher grade largely

corresponding in fact, though not in name, with

Senior Assistant Auditors of other Colonies. Both

grades, the title of both being Assistant Auditor,

have

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