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existing scales.

(c) It is contended that the opportunities of

promotion in this Department are less than in most other

Colonies.

The nomenclature of the Engineering Grades in the

different Colonies varies. In Nigeria all Engineers on

appointment belong to a class denominated Executive Engineers

with the following grades:-

Grades ii

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iv

2475,475, 500-25-600-30-840

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Grade i

2880-40-1000

Further it is apparent that officers occupying posts

approximating to those of the local Executive Engineers are

termed Senior Executive Engineerswith Super-scale posts. In

Malaya there are, in addition to Director, Deputy Director and

Assistant Director, four Engineering grades viz. State Engineer,

Senior Executive Engineer, Executive Engineer and Engineer,

the first two grades being equivalent to the post of the local

Executive Engineer, the last two being equivalent to the post

of the local Engineer, the bar between the Engineer and Executive

Engineer in Malaya being one of efficiency only.

(d) It is difficult to believe that in order to

further the Unification (sic) of the Colonial Services ahe

scales of the Engineering Staff of this Department are,

without a thorough and impartial investigation into local

circumstances, to be arbitrarily and permanently reduced to

those of West Africa which were fixed at a minimum during a

time of severe financial stress in west africa. It is only

equitable and just to base emoluments on normal conditions

and not on "depression" or "boom" conditions.

11. Origin of existing scales.

The present scales were recommended in 1929 at a time

of normality by an impartial commission who fully investigated

all the pertinent facts and who considered that those scales