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II have been prepared.

rented quarters, nett salaries plus allowances have, for the

purposes of comparison, been computed for these conditions,

allowances being calculated in accordance with G. . 117(5).

4. Effect on Salaries.

As the majority of officers occupy

An examination of Appendix I shows that an Engineer

when promoted from the maximum of the existing scale to the

minimum of an Executive Engineer on the proposed scale would,

while in the Colony, sustain a loss of £75 per annum, compared

with an increase of £27 if promoted on the existing scale, .

total luss of 2102 per annum.

Corresponding figures when on leave show a loss of

£144 instead of a gain of £29, a total loss of £173 per annum,

Similarly an Executive Engineer, when promoted from

the maximum of his existing scale to the fixed salary of an

Assistant Director of Public Works on the proposed scale, would,

while in the Colony, gain £78 per annum instead of receiving no

immediate increase. AS, however, the existing salary of an

Assistant Director of Public Works is incremental and the

proposed salary is fixed this increase would be reduced to a

loss of £12 per annum after two years. When on leave, while

there would be no immediate loss on promotion, the loss after

two years would, as explained in the previous sentence, be

£96 per annum.

5. Effect on Pensionable Emɔluments.

Appendix II shows that an Engineer when promoted

from the maximum of his existing scale to the minimum of an

Executive Engineer on the proposed scale would lose £259 in

pensionable emoluments instead of an increase of £35, a tutal

luss of £294 even waen the proposed addition of one twelfth has

been made.

Similarly, promotion from Executive Engineer to

Assistant Director of Public Works would entail an immediate

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