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Wednesday, November 15, 1972

GOVERNMENT ACCEPTS REPORTS ON SUPERSCALE SALARIES

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The Colonial Secretary, the Hon. Sir Hugh Norman-Walker, today

tabled in the Legislative Council the Third and Fourth Reports of the

Standing Committee on Superscale Salaries.

He told the Council that the Third Report was almost entirely

concerned with the grading of superscale posts as distinct from any question

of salaries.

The Fourth Report, Sir Hugh said, dealt principally with superscale

salaries, and flowed from the accepted recommendations of the overall

salaries review by the 1971 Salaries Commission,

The following is the full text of the Colonial Secretary's speech:-

"I laid on the table this afternoon the Third and Fourth Reports

of the Standing Committee on Superscale Salaries.

"The Third Report was almost entirely concerned with the grading

of superscale poste as distinct from any question of salaries, The

Committee's review of gradings was comprehensive, and I must express my

gratitude. All their recommendations have already been accepted by the

Finance Committee of this Council and have been put into effect. Certain

recommendations regarding superscale conditions of service overlapped with

more generalized conditions of service and of course had to await the

results of the 1971 Salaries Commission.

"The Fourth Report dealt principally with superscale salaries,

and flowed from the accepted recommendations of the overall salaries review

by the 1971 Salaries Commission. So far as the Committee's recommendations

/on salaries