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The lack of recognition which the
above posts receive presents a serious
obstacle to such prospects of promotion
as an officer in the Colonial Service
may legitimately expect. In this
connection your petitioners beg to
quote further from the Secretary of
State's Dispatcn of 12th March 1936
in which he states "
and the
provision of a suitable number of posts
above the bar to be reached not
automatically, but by promotion.
By
a suitable number I mean a number which
on the one hand will bear a reasonable
relation to the duties assigned to
senior officers, and on the other hand
will be sufficient to ensure that fully
efficient officers will be able to
pass to the higher scale without any
undue delay at the maximum of the lower"
It is shown in Appendix I that on the
average, with the Department ma in ta in ing
its present strength, an officer will
be forced to remain for eleven years
on the maximum of the 15 year time scale
in the proposed salaries before
promotion to a senior post. Such a
situation is seriously at variance with
the suggestion quoted in the preceding
paragraph.
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