CO129-568-10 Government Marine Surveyors- petition for increase in salary 30-12-1937 - 6-11-1939 — Page 28

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C. O.

Mr.

Mr.

Mr.

Mr. A. J. Dawe.

Sir H. Moore.

Sir G. Tomlinson.

Sir J. Shuckburgh.

Permt. U.S. of S.

Parly, U.S. of S.

Secretary of State.

retaining their existing privileges

in respect of quarters,in return for

surrendering the right to residential

allowance. Conversion to the new

scale, together with residential

allowance and the new conditions as

to rent allowance, would result in a

substantial immediate increase of net

DRAFT.

FURTHER ACTION.

emoluments which should more than offset

the slight resulting reduction in

ultimate pension. I attach to this

despatch a note which indicates the

effect on serving officers of the

two alternative methods of conversion.

There is, moreover, some advantage

from the administrative point of view

in reducing to a minimum the number of

special categories of officers; and in

my opinion the Surveyors of Ships can

be differentiated from the Engineers of

the Public Works Department, with whom

the Anomalies Committee dealt on page 31

of

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