§ 26. Mr. JOWETTasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether clerks promoted on the ground of special merit from the rank of assistant clerk to the second division prior to December, 1908, are in receipt of a salary lower than that payable to them had they not been selected for promotion; and what steps he proposes to take in the matter?
§ Mr. MASTERMANCertain advances in salary were given to assistant clerks serving as such on the 1st April, 1909, or subsequently appointed; but, as was made clear at the time, these increases were not given to officers who had left the class in question before that date. They have in any case by promotion to the second division obtained greatly increased prospects and a scale of pay rising to a maximum of £300 instead of to £150.