CO129-561-9 Vacancies in Public Works Department 8-7-1937 - 9-7-1938 — Page 8

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appears to deserve some concession.

The Governor

therefore proposes that any Engineer put in charge of

a sub-department for which no suitable substantive

Executive Engineer was available should be granted

acting pay as an acting Executive Engineer. It is

not anticipated that this situation would arise for

any considerable period, and as it seems to be an act

of substantial justice, I suggest that we might

approve.

Subject to Pram concurence

? Approve the promotions and note on P.F's.

Approve the Governor's proposal in paragraph 4 and ask

that Mr. Woodward may be informed accordingly.

I agree

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I agree as regards Mr. Robertson and Mr. Nicol.

Their service dates from 1920 and 1921 respectively

and we need not consider any outside candidates.

As regards the last sentence of the despatch

an Engineer acting as an Executive Engineer in the

absence of a substantive member of the latter grade

would get acting pay and what the Governor must have

in mind is the case when the complement of substan-

tive Executive Engineers is full but none of them

is suitable to take charge of a particular sub-

department of which, in consequence, an Engineer has

to be placed in acting charge. That is the position

which, according to Mr. Woodward's petition, has

arisen in the past/which (see paragraph 26) he expects

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to arise again if the Governor's recommendations for

promotion are approved. In those circumstances it seems

to be fair that the officer doing the duties of an

Executive Engineer should get at least acting pay

and I would tell the Governor that the Secretary of

State would be prepared to consider favourably any recommendation that he may make along the lines of

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