CO129-573-16 Senior clerical and accounting staff- re-adjustment of salaries 27-6-1938 - 3-2-1939 — Page 3

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at present, will I think have this effect, and

I think that to this extent we may approve.

I do not, however, altogether

understand why at the same time it has been

thought necessary to raise the salaries.

The

new salary scales proposed start at £260 a

year instead of £250 as previously, but the

top of the scale is £775 a year instead of

£700, while the four special posts have all

been put on the scale £800 £1,050. No reason

is given for this increase, and since the

changes made are ostensibly in order to remove

the block in promotion, I suggest in the first

place we should

? acknowledge and say that the S. of

S. approves the Governor's proposals in so far

as they involve the amalgamation of Class II

and Class III of the Service, with an efficiency

bar instead of a promotion bar approximately

where the present Class II begins. Say that

this would have the effect of avoiding the

present block in promotion which causes

dissatisfaction. Say that the S. of S. is not

aware of the reasons for effecting at the same

time a considerable increase in the salary at

the top of the scale, and in the case of the

four special appointments. And ask what are

the reasons for this increase.

F. Roger

17/9

As I had it, the

general increase

in salaries is to

compensati offrains

Drains for the

mariager deduction for quarters

(1200 uistiar