CO129-569-7 Revision of salaries 6-7-1938 - 11-10-1938 — Page 147

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office and serving in the Colony on or before

the 31st of March, 1937, if the maximum rent

which he is liable to pay for Government quarters

does not at the time of his retirement exceed

7% of his salary, and in the case of every

European Mistress in the Education Department

entitled to rent allowance, there shall be added

an allowance equal to one-sixth of his salary

or to £200 a year in the case of a sterling

salary or to $2,000 a year in the case of a

dollar salary, whichever sum is the less. In

the case of every officer holding pensionable

office who was first appointed to the service of

this Colony after the 31st of March, 1937, and

at the time of his retirement is entitled to

free quarters, there shall be added an allowance

equal to one-sixth of his salary or to £150 in

the case of a sterling salary or to $2,000 per

annum in the case of a dollar salary, whichever

sum is the less. In the case of a European

matron of or a European Nursing Sister in a

Government Hospital who is entitled to free

quarters there shall be added an allowance equal

to one-sixth of her salary or to £50 whichever

sum is the greater."

An amendment on these lines would admit of

officers personally appointed in the future on the old terms as to quarters (as proposed in paragraph 24 of this Report)

benefiting by the existing provisions of the law.

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II. RENT FOR QUARTERS AND RENT OR LODGING ALLOWANCES.

It was a condition of the new scales of salary

that officers appointed on these scales if occupying

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