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

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reach their maximum during the course of this year. At

the end of 1936, seven officers who are qualified for pro- motion will have been on their maximum for three years or

more. In 1929, there were four promotions from Class 11

to Class 1; in 1930, 3; in 1931, 3; but in 1932, 1933,

1934 and 1935, there was only one promotion each year and it is improbable that there will be more than one during 1936.

It is therefore obvious that circumstances

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have changed considerably since the time of Sir William

Peel's despatch which I have quoted above. The peculiarly

favourable conditions as regards promotion which obtained

prior to 1932 mainly due to frequent transfers of Class 1

Inspectors to other departments no longer exist and what

might be described as a period of stagnation has set in.

Whereas some of the officers now in Class 1 were undoubtedly

fortunate in securing early promotion it would appear that

the pendulum has now swung to the other extreme and has left

many of the officers at present in Class 11 in a very un-

fortunate position. It is not surprising that these officers

view their future prospects with a misgiving which is further

enhanced by such an anomaly as two officers with only a few

months' difference in length of service, but otherwise of

equal qualifications, being so situated that one of them is

in Class 1 and drawing an annually increasing salary on a

higher scale while the other continues for several years to

draw the maximum of Class 11.

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In order to remove these causes of dissatis-

faction, I propose, subject to your approval, to abolish

the division into Classes 1 and 11 and to substitute there-

for a through time-scale with annual increments. The

through-scale suggested is £260 to £430 by nine increments

of £10, one of £20 and four of £15. Although at first sight

it might appear that the nine increments of £10 in the lower

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