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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 privilege also. With this in mind we have examined the
case of each particular branch of the Service and submit
the following recommendations.
(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. We 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. The salaries listed for the posts
in question in Part 2 of Appendix VI to General Orders would apply in the event of the appointment
of a non-Cadet officer to any of those posts.
We add here recommendations on two comparatively
minor points.
(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
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