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ranges of this through-scale compare unfavourably with only
four increments of £10 in the case of Overseers in the
Public Works Department (£310 to £430 by four increments of
£10, one of £20 and four of £15) and five increments of £10
in the case of European Revenue Officers (£260 to £430 by
five increments of £10, three of £20 and four of £15), there
are certain bonus increments available to Sanitary Inspectors
which act as a compensating factor. These bonus increments,
which are laid down in General Order 138 ( a copy of which is
appended to this despatch), are desirable in that they stimu-
late officers to qualify early and I therefore propose to
amend the General Order in the manner shewn and to retain
them, but a strict efficiency bar will be imposed at £290
and again at £350. Under the new scale, as is found in
practice under the present scale, a competent Sanitary Inspec-
tor should qualify for a salary of £300 within two years of
the date of his first appointment; he should reach £350 in
his seventh year and provided he passes the efficiency bar
he will then proceed to draw further increments up to £430.
5.
No provision was, of course, made for the
introduction of this through-scale in the Estimates for the
present year, but I propose to provide for it in the Estimates
for 1937 and then consider the date of its introduction in
the light of the financial position as it appears towards
the end of this year. If it is possible to introduce the through-scale as from 1st January, 1937, it will be made, in
the case of each officer at present in the service, retrospec-
tive to the date on which he qualified for £300 per annum
under General Order 138, with the proviso that during the
year 1937 no officer who is now in Class 11 will proceed to
a salary in excess of £370. This means that an officer who,
according to the new scale, would on 1st January, 1937,
already be qualified for a salary exceeding £370 per annum,
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