CO129-578-2 Revision of salaries for Government employees 4-11-1938 - 12-12-1939 — Page 75

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As to the point of the salary for senior

mistresses which has been fixed at £740, this was arrived at

on the basis, more or less, of the arithmetical proportion to the corresponding masters' salary and has the advantage that it keeps the salary of the senior mistress slightly lower than the minimum of the scale for the Head Mistress, Belilios

Public School, the next senior post.

I entirely agree as to the importance of

systematic consideration of any prima facie reasonable

complaint and I think the above account shows that the

Government very willingly modified the scale which had already been introduced when it was represented by the mistresses that it was inadequate.

Yours sincerely,

ashottest