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scales would be applied. (p. 13 para. 32 their report).

They also envisage the possiblity of an officer transferring from one grade to another. They consider that the Labour Department staff should be partly Frofessional and Administrative and partly Technical. The grading of the staff proposed is grouned as foll ws:-

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(i) rofessional and Administrative Officers and Assistant Professional Officers the Commissioner, Cadet Officers Class II (robably the asat. or deputy to the Commissioner), the Labour Officers (i cl. women);

see pp xxxv and xxxviii of App.III)

(ii) Technical Officers and Technicians and Asst. Technical Officers the Chief Labour. Inspector,

Labour Inspectors Grades I and II; (see pp xxviii and Xxxiii of App. III)

(iii) "Asst. Labour Officers" come into neither group but rearly fit the model scale on p. xl of App. III

omen Labour Inspectors Grade II" are not specifically grouped but fit the scale set out in p. xxxiv of App. III

6. The whole of the Labour Office proposals are set out in p. ccxxviii of App. V. Detailed comment is given below, but with the reservation that othing is known here of the Labour Commissioner's own views on the grading of his staff hich he must have expressed to the Commission, but which he

we Commission may not have agreed; and (b) it is not possible to be any- thing but cautious when, as is the case, the nature of the duties to be performed by the various officers is unknown Iresumably Industrial Relations and Factory Inspection form part of them, regulation of hours of york of xmeny protected persons probably also and almost certainly workmen's Compensation roblems. In addition it may be that some wage-fixing machinery exits and. scheme of employment excharges or resettling of labour disturbed by the war. A cursory glance at the labour legislation in forge in February of this year gives the impression that most of these subjects fall to the Labour Office to deal with. Assuming this, and believing that the La our Inspectors" will probably have to have some knowledge of most of these problems, my comments are given below: