CO129-599-2 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949 — Page 57

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scale at $7200 per annum and rise to $9600 by annual increments of $480.

129.

We propose a common scale for floating staff in all departments to include all engineers, coxswains, boatswains, seamen and stokers, except deck staff in the Police and Fire Brigade. We recommend that all such staff except deck staff in the Police and Fire Brigade should be under the general control of the Harbour Master and should be appointed and trained by him and seconded as required to other departments.

Post Office, Telecommunications and Broadcasting.

130.

For the reasons given in paragraph 86 we recommend that there should in future be no separate establishment of postal clerks, but that postal clerks should in future be members of the General Clerical Service and be liable to be transferred to other departments. Similarly, clerks from other departments should be liable to be transferred to the Post Office.

131.

We recommend that assistant wireless engineers and wireless engineers should be on the same rates of pay as assistant engineers and engineers in the Public Works Department. We propose for the Senior Wireless Engineer the same salary scale on for an executive Engineer.

132.

We propose that wireless telegraphists should be divided into three grades and should be on a scale similar to that for the Clerical Service, but commencing at $1920 per annum and rising to $3300 per annum. Promotion from grade III to grade II and from grade II to grade I should depend upon vacancies occurring. We propose that the salary scale for grade I should be from $5400 per annum to $6720 per annum.

133.

There are at prosent wireless technicians on both sterling and dollar scales. We propose that locally recruited officers should commence as assistant wireless technicians grade II on a salary scale running from $2400 per annum to $3300 per annum. These officers in the post were on scales similar to those for the Junior Clerical Service, but since a Postmaster General's Certificate in wireless telegraphy is required in addition to practical experience, we consider that a higher entry point than for clerks is justified. We consider that there should be a promotion bar between assistant wireless technicians grade II and grade I. Officers in grade I should be considered on thoir merits for promotion to wireless technician as vacancies occur.

Air Services.

134.

Our recommendations for the salary of the Director of Air Services are based on our estimato of this officer's present responsibilities, but they may require revision when the scheme for a larger airport is put into oporation. We recommend that he should be assisted by a Deputy Director who should also be Airport Manager in charge of operational and administrative work at the airport, We further recommend that the titles of several of the other officers in this Department should be altered to conform with the nomenclature suggested at the recent Colonial Aviation Conference.