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III.
stages. As regards the initial
salary, the Governor thinks it quite
adequate for untrained probationers between
17 and 21, whose value to the Service at the
beginning of their career is of necessity
small.
Of course, with the present
most unsatisfactory promotion blocks and
stagnation, the advantages of the Junior
Clerical Service, even under the present
queer scheme, are probably not very apparent
to the members of the Service. Nevertheless,
I think they are there, and the new scheme
envisaged by the Governor seems likely to
bring them properly to the fore. In fact
the petitioners' real cause for complaint
seems to me to lie not so much in the salary
scales themselves as in the stagnation
resulting from the present organisation and
the consequent periodical cessation of
increments.
The new scheme proposed by the Governor.
The Governor's general view is
that the petitioners' complaint concerning
their actual salary scales is not justified,
but that there is obviously much substance in their complaint regarding the stagnation caused
by the present system of division into classes.
His proposed scheme is, therefore, based on a
condensation of the existing classes rather
than
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