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(1)
(appendix A contd.)
That vacancies rarely occur, and that mainly through
retirement or death.
(E)
That the posts in the upper grades are much too few
in proportion to those in the lower grades. It is believed
that many men have been put back because there are no vacancies.
(3) That whereas the number of posts in Class VI was
increased from 210 in 1928 to 316 in 1936, no new posts in
upper grades have been created since 1931.
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This increase in
the lower grades without a proportionate increase in the upper
grades have further reduced chances of promotion.
(4) That there are too many bars of promotion in the
Junior Clerical Service giving no chance ordinarily for a
young man to reach the Higher Class before he attains the age
limit. In this connection, my colleagues venture to point out
that even if one is lucky enough to secure promotion immediatcly
one year after he reaches the maximum salary of a class, he has
to work 40 years to reach the maximum salary of the Higher
Class.
Besides, it is invariably the case that one has almost
always to "wait" for his promotion. It is, indeed, a dis-
couragement that one, however deserving, has to be penalised
by having advancement in his career and pay stopped for a few
years so many times in the course of his scrvice that he cannot
even hope to reach Class II before he retires.
The present position will become even worse for the
Servants concerned in the course of a few years if no remedy is
applied for, and it is requestcd that the Government will adopt
a through scale for the Junior Clerical Service as in the case
of the Chinese bonool Masters, Luropean overseers, Revenue
Officers and Sanitary Inspectors (the last named, it is under-
stood, are to be put on a through scale as soon as the presenc
levy is abolished) or, if this cannot be done, remove some of
the bars So ns to afford better chances for the young men to
realize their hopes of reaching the Higher Class in due course.
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