CO129-558-8 Revision of salaries 19-8-1936 - 11-2-1937 — Page 74

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financial position of the Government and

so forth. Little attempt was made, except

in the case of certain regional groups, to

measure

secure any substantial incense of co-

ordination. In many Colonies the position

was complicated by a failure to recognise

any difference between the requirements of

officers recruited from overseas and those

recruited locally.

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It is obvious that the resources

of a Colonial Government, and the conditions

of life which obtain in the Colony, are

factors of primary importance in fixing

the salaries of locally engaged personnel.

They are also factors which cannot be

disregarded in fixing the remuneration of

officers recruited from outside, but here

other considerations also have to be taken

into account. In a good many respects the

factors which govern the recruitment and

determine the remuneration and other

conditions