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CONSTITUTION AND ADMINISTRATION

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transferred to monthly rates, and daily rates of pay will then be confined to purely casual workers.

The Public Service has more than doubled during the last ten years, the establishment on 1st April 1959 being 45,546 compared with 17,554 on 1st April 1949. The estimated expenditure on salaries for the financial year 1959-60 was $244.5 million, which represents 35.3% of the total estimated expenditure for the year (excluding expenditure from the Development Fund) of $693 million.

One of the most noteworthy developments in the Public Service since the war has been the large increase in the number of local officers in the more senior posts (Classes I and II), mainly as a result of greater local recruitment to senior administrative and professional appointments in the Education, Medical and Health and Public Works Departments. In 1950 there were 54 local officers and 448 overseas officers in these classes; on 1st January 1959 there were 452 local officers and 744 overseas officers. The proportion of local officers in Classes I and II has thus risen from 10.75% to 37.79% in nine years. The increase in the number of overseas officers has been due principally to the need to keep pace with the ever-increasing development of the Colony, which cannot be delayed until local training schemes in the University and elsewhere are able to produce enough graduates to meet all the demands of the Public Service as well as those of private enterprise. There are also 635 overseas and 9,538 locally appointed officers in Class III, making a grand total of 1,379 overseas officers and 9,990 local officers in three classes.

Salary Structure. Broadly speaking, the post-war structure of the Public Service, including its salary scales and general conditions of service, has been based upon the Report of the 1947 Salaries Commission. One of the Commission's recommendations led to the formation of a Conditions of Service Committee which met during 1948-50 to resolve anomalies arising out of the Commis sion's Report and which in turn was replaced by the Public Services Commission itself. The Lo Committee on cost of living allowances also supplemented the 1947 Commission's Report by devising a system of variable cost of living allowances to replace the temporary system proposed by the Commission. In 1951 the