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confined to officers on £1000 or over at the time

of the introduction of the new scales, all engineers

serving on the old terms should be allowed to

continue to pay rent for quarters at 6% only and

therefore to retain their pension 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.

(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.

recommend that any Medical Officer on the old

scales who may be appointed to one of the

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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 analagous 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