CO129-568-10 Government Marine Surveyors- petition for increase in salary 30-12-1937 - 6-11-1939 — Page 51

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3. X X X X "In a good many respects the factors which

govern the recruitment and determine the remuneration and

other conditions to be offered to candidates of a particul-

ar class are fairly constant in whatever Colony the

officer is to be employed. Absence of co-ordination in

these matters must tend to result in inequalities of

treatment which are prejudicial to the interests of

particular Colonies and of the service as a whole X X X

some standard of adequate terms of employment should

exist.

5. X X X it has now been possible to carry out an exhaustive review of the kind of salary scales which may

be regarded as providing a reasonable career for persons recruited in this country for service in the Colonies, and

may be expected, in comparison with other avenues of

employment, to attract candidates of the type required. 6. X X X I am of the opinion that the salary scales

recently brought into force for the main branches of the

service in West Africa, as shown in the enclosed memorand-

um marked D, may be taken as a reasonable basis in fixing the salaries of officers of comparable standing employed

in Colonies outside West Africa.

8. (c) X X X By a suitable number I mean a number

which on the one hand will bear a reasonable relation to

the duties assigned to senior officers and on the other

hand will be sufficient to ensure that fully efficient

officers will be able to pass to the higher scale without

undue delay at the maximum of the lower.

12. X

X X X I have been concerned only with officers of the unified services and others of comparable status.

So far as these officers are concerned, I attach

considerable importance to the elimination of diversities of treatment as between different Colonies except in so

far as such diversities are genuinely required.

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