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Wednesday, July 19, 1972

The Financial Secretary said there had also been instances of

operators dropping their passengers short of the destination declared on the

notice board. Inevitably such practices had caused confusion and resentment

among the travelling public.

NEGOTIATIONS ON TEACHERS SALARY SCALE REACH DELICATE STAGE

The Government is making every effort to implement the new salary

scale for teachers by the beginning of the new academic year in September.

The Acting Colonial Secretary, the Hon. M.D.A. Clinton, said, however,

that the Government was not the only party involved, and much depended on the progress of the long drawn out and complicated consultations now going on almost

daily with the Staff Side of the Senior Civil Service Council.

Mr. Clinton, who was replying to a question by the Hon. Mrs. Joyce

Symons, said that as the negotiations had reached a rather delicate stage he

did not wish to say any more.

He also disclosed that the draft Code of Aid for schools was now in

an advanced stage and hopefully agreement on the outstanding points could be

reached with the Grant and Subsidised Schools Councils for the new unified code

to be introduced in April 1973.

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However, Mr. Clinton pointed out that there were still a "few formidable

hurdles" to be surmounted "namely the Board of Education, the Executive Council

and the Finance Committee of this Council,"

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