CO129-559-9 European Sanitary inspectors- salary scales 11-6-1936 - 22-7-1936 — Page 11

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would proceed to draw £370 per annum as from that date and 1st

January would thereafter be his incremental date.

6.

The additional expenditure involved by the intro-

duction of the through-scale will not be large. Each officer

affected by the scale will in the long run draw as salary an

extra sum of money which, so far as can be estimated at the

present time, will amount to approximately $120. If the new

scale is introduced on 1st January, 1937, as outlined in the

preceding paragraph, the extra expenditure involved in 1937 will

amount to less than $25, though in 1938 it would rise to approxi-

mately £250. I would point out, however, that the recruitment

of European Sanitary Inspectors has been suspended and that

Asiatic Sanitary Inspectors are now being engaged at a salary

of $1200 to $1800 by annual increments of $100. At present there

are five qualified Asiatic Inspectors while seven more are on pro-

bation in training. As these Asiatics at salaries from $1200 to

$1800 replace Europeans at £260 to £430, it will not be more than

two or three years before the extra cost of the new through-scale

for Europeans is out-weighed by a saving on the cost of the

Inspectorate as a whole.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient, humble servant,

Caldac

Governor, &c.