CO129-569-7 Revision of salaries 6-7-1938 - 11-10-1938 — Page 138

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promoted to new scales the present privilege of paying only 6% for quarters and so by virtue of the proposed new section 2 (c) (i) preserving the existing pension

With this in mind we have examined the privilege also. case of each particular branch of the Service and submit the following recommendations.

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(a) Administrative Service. As recommended to the

Secretary of State in Your Excellency's recent despatch Confidential (2) of the 4th of April, 1938, the proposal to appoint officers specifically to the higher administrative posts (other than the ex-officio members of Executive Council) should be abandoned and the present system of appointment to a class be continued. We recommend that the salary attached to Class I, Administrative Service, should be £1450 rising to £1600 by annual increments of £50 plus free quarters. Le recommend also that administrative officers acting in posts scheduled for the time being as Class I posts should receive £200 a year as acting pay. We add here recommendations on two

comparatively minor points.

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i) It is anomalous that the Financial Secretary should be paid more than the Secretary for Chinese Affairs who is also an ex-officio member of Executive Council and senior in precedence. We consider that both should have salaries of £1700 plus free quarters. (ii) The Secretary of State's despatch No.220

of the 12th of June, 1937, referred to the addition of a duty allowance to the new

We salary of the Colonial Secretary. consider that it should be definitely laid