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privilege. As regards promotion of Executive

Engineers to the grade of Assistant Director of

Public Works, however, the new scales do provide some

advancement both in actual and in pensionable

emoluments, although not so great an advance as under

the old scales. We therefore recommend that the new

scales should be adhered to in any future appointments to that grade. With regard to acting pay we recommená

that Engineers acting as Executive Engineer should

receive a fixed allowance of £150 per annum, follow-

ing the system proposed for the analogous case of

Administrative officers acting in Class I posts.

(c) Medical Service.

Scales for certain specialist

and other posts intermediate between the time scale

and the Deputy Director of Medical Services are

proposed in Part IV of this report. We recommenă

that any Medical Officer on the old scales who may be

appointed to one of the specialist posts be allowed

to retain his old privileges as to quarters and

pension. No difficulty arises as to promotion to

Senior Medical Officer.

(d) Legal Service. No anomalies analogous to those in

the Public Works Department appear to arise and we

recommend that the new scales be applied to all

future appointments.

(e) Educational Service. The position is in some

respects analogous to the Public Works Service

in that there is a super-grade of head masters

intermediate between the ordinary time scale and

the Director of Education. Promotion to the

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