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grade of Head-master on the new scale does, however,

represent some advancement to educational officers

on the old time scale both in actual and in

pensionable emoluments. It does not represent

any real advancement to officers of the grade of

Senior Master on the old scale and the Secretary

of State in his despatch referred to suggested that

any officers at present of the rank of Senior

Master should be entitled on promotion to the grade

of Head-master to the old scale. We recommend

instead that such officers should, like Engineers,

come on to the new scale with their old terms as to

quarters and pensions.

(f) Police Service. Superintendents and Assistant

Superintendents are not treated as distinct grades

in the same way as Executive Engineers and

Engineers and no analagous difficulty arises.

Representations have been made to the effect that the advancement gained by a Superintendent on the

present scale on promotion to the post of Deputy

Commissioner of Police will be inadequate, since

his present scale rises to a maximum of £1300 and

the new salary of the Deputy Commissioner is only

£1300 plus free quarters. There is, however, some

advantage in such promotion even to an officer at

the top of the time-scale, since he will gain free

quarters and we cannot recommend that the old scale

of Deputy Commissioner of Police should be preserved

for existing police officers. One individual

officer, Mr. W.R. Scott, is in a special position

as he is already personally entitled to free

quarters;

we consider that his position may have