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4. As regards the question of deductions from salary to pay for passage. Assume £1 a month is deducted when on full pay and 10/- when on pay. Taking interest at 5% per

annnn.

The result of each deduction works out as follows:

1st year. £12+ .3 for interest

2nd year. £12.3+12+.915

3rd year. £25.215 + 12 + 1.56

4th

year. £38,775 +12 + 2.239

5th year. £53.014 + 12 + 2,951

51 year. £67.965+3+.868

years pay £4.5 less disc. 167.

Total,

£12.3

25.215

38.775

53.014

67.965

71.833

4.333

£76.166

about

£76. 38. 4d.

5. Hence for every £10 a month salary, the saving on account of less leave is £35.5 and for every deduction of £1 a month on fall salary and 10/- a month on & salary is £76-3-4.

6. As regards the cost of passages, children under 12 are charged half fare, one child under 3 is carried free, and an additional child under 3 is charged quarter fare. Taking the maximum amount of passages to be provided as that for husband, wife, two children over 3 and under 12, and two children under 3, or 3 full fares, the maximum of passage to be pail by Government would be £159. 10s. 3d.

7. Taking the present officers as a basis (November 1908) the average annual cost would be:-

Department.

Public Works Department,...............

Sanitary Department,

Gaol,......

Harbour Office,

Medical Department,

Post Office,

Land Office,

£5,059

7,348

3,532.6

2.880.2

Cost. £374-12- 6 486-19- 0 282- 4- 9 192-11-10

40-18- 14

ITE

570

Annual Salary.

Annual Saving by Leave.

£249.44 359.73 172.95 141.01

405

27.91 29.58 27.91

51- 2-10 16- 7- 3

£20,394.8

£1,008.53

Difference,

600

£1,444-16- 31

£136-5-8

Percentage of salary to be deducted, under 24 per cent.

8. Hence taking the present time (November 1908) as a basis for ages etc., if 24 per cent, was deducted from salaries, and less leave granted, then the Government would lose nothing.

9. On the other hand the staff has recently been increased and so the full average of married men cannot be expecte l. One result of this scheme, if a lopted, would be that nore officers would marry, as they would feel sure of their passage expenses home being paid. If however therefore 3 per cent. were deducted this should be sufficient.

10. As regards the statement that no extra expense would be incurred to Government, it is necessary to qualify this statement. Under this scheme an officer would receive three months salary in the form of a free passage, without his living a period of three months in which he would draw three months full pay. Hence if an officer went on leave during a period of one year he would receive three months full pay during his service in the Colony plus nine months half pay during his term of leave and also the Government would contribute to the passage fund, on his account, the sum equal to three months full pay. So the total amount paid by Government would be 103 months full pay. There would therefore only be three months half pay available for payment of any acting officer instead of nine months, the time the officer is on half pay leave. Under present conditions the acting officer performs the duties of the absent officer free of expense during the three months that he is on full pay leave