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have received acting pay calculated on that salary. No date

was fixed for the coming into operation of the new scheme of

salaries until the issue of General Order amendment No.30 of

1938, which provided that the new salaries were to be operative

for the purpose of calculating acting pay with effect from 1st

January, 1938. These salaries have in fact been so applied since

that date. Administrative officers were, however, exempted from

the operation of that amendment because it had not at that time

been decided whether definite salaries would be fixed for

individual super-scale posts in the Administrative class or whether the old Class I system would be retained. Accordingly Mr. Todd, who was acting in the post of Chairman of the Urban Council, drew no acting pay. It seemed to me, however, unfair that he should lose by the accident that, while it was agreed in principle that the post in which he was acting ought to carry acting pay, it had not been agreed exactly what amount of acting pay should be attached to it. It could, in fact, have been argued that he should have received as from 1st January, 1938, acting pay on the same basis as other Administrative officers acting in recognized First Class posts, i.e. £1,500 per annum, which compares with total emoluments of £1,350 per annum which he will draw under the new arrangements.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient, humble servant,

and. Worthcote

Governor,