CO129-599-1 Salaries Commission 8-12-1947 - 22-12-1947 — Page 281

INWARD TELEGRAM

TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES

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Your telegram No.1976 of 1947, Salaries

Commission, paragraph 2,

Naval dockyards do not (repeat not) employ any minor staff on monthly rates of pay below clerical grades, and proposed adjustment will merely have offect of bringing emolumente of Govs ronans menthily paid minor staff up to total sarned by dockyard daily paid staff.

I can therefore give required assurances. I cannot however guarantee that if modified high cost of it allo jere given with effect from 1st January 1947 there woul dail

aid Iebour in dockyards and in the Colony generally L for similar retrospective adjustment.

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I propose therefore to adopt the Commission's recommendations from 1st January to 1h September and revise rates thereafter.

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date settlement

dockyard, to

Grateful for your olments at the earliest possible moment on time sonte and high cost of living allowance for saleries over 1,499 per mçnsea.

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