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They Satisfy employers of labour to allow their JAMAICA men lesve to atteud dutles, etc.
The Chamber of Commerce hrs agreed to co opera e in the Petition of Civil Service Mov. Lent.
Association is Being BRITISH GUIANA Signed, The Gleaner understands The Civil Service thąt the petition which the members of the Jamaica Civil Service Pay. Association are forwarding to the Secretary of State for the colonies through His Excellency PROSPECT OF FURTHER the Governor, is still going REDUCTIONS. the rounds for sigoatures, and It is hoped that is a comparativeFewer Divisions in the Service. be in the hands of the Executive.
ly sbort time the document will The petitioners are asking that Fellowing is a supplement to the war bonus for the first three the report of the Demerara Civil months of 1922 which has not Service Commission which has been given to them ba so gives been printed as sessional and the grievances of certain o.
ficers who did not participer In e nnection with the sa)a the last bonus granted by thg ries of Civil Servants, the British Legislative Council is also dealt Guiana Civil Service Association estimated the cost of living at 80 per. cent over the pre war cost as shown by the cost of rent, clotb Hon. Wint Likely To ing and food. The late Governor, Get Official Position, Sir Collet, estimated the increase at 43 per cent. at the beginning of this year. The Trini Mitchell, one of the The Herald states that Mr.
dad Civil Service Commission pronounc the increase in Tri Sanlore Inspectors of Schools, nidad to be 90 per cent.
has been offered the position of It is 19 Principal of Cornwall College, very difficult for your commis; Montego Bay, rendered vacant sioners to put forward any by the death of Ray. Lesdetinite figure for this colony der, Sc. It is certain that Mr. it the owing to the great variety in the Mitchell will accept the offer, in standard of living No doubt the which case there will be a sbuffincrease is much greater for the ling of the cards in the list of Insmall salaried men than for those spectors in the above named de.
receiving larger salaries. Some partment. The vacancy which is of your Commissioners think that ba crested consequant on Mr.
80 per cent. is far too high and Mitchell resignation will, it is ibat 50 per cent is nearer the reported, be filled by the appointmark for the man whose salary is meat of the Hon. Theo Wint, under 400. It must, bowever, LC for St. And, to the Edube anticipated that there will be cation Department as an Inspeca gradual but very considerable tor of Schools.
reduction in the cost of living ir stable conditions throughout the Mr. Wint is well known in civilized world are not further Panama, where, in company with disturbed Provision sbould other members of the Ligislative therefore be made for further Council, he paid a visit last year.
reductions in salaries as time goes on, and your Commissioaers suggest the following machines Representative Coming Out as. Salaries of future appointments to remain on the basis TO CONCLUDE CONTRACTS proposed in our first report up IN ST. THOMAS AND to the 1st June, 1924, during PORTLAND, which mooth a committee of three (selected preferably from the members of the present It is gratifying to be able to Commissioa) should be appoint state that the Duke of Athol, the ed to make recommendations as Right Hon. Lord Invernalrn and to the salar. es of posts Vacant other Glasgow financiers who or expected to be vacant baving have agreed to organize a comregard to the reduction or expany to develop eastern St.
pected reduction in the cost of Toomas and Portland, have living which it is impossible at taken another step towards the present to forecast. Eleven special recommen(Continued on page 7)
dations for iacrease of salaries for individual officers have been communicated to to the Commission PREPAREDNESS on behalf of ten departments.
While your Commissioners have no specific obj ctions to make to The great moment in a Scout any of toese recommendations, life when his preparedness can we consider that individual cases save a human life, came to Firstwould ba better dealt with be Class Scout Cecil Smith Birch of tween the Government and the Troop Texarkana, Texas, unthe island. meeting of the departments concerned as re der circumstances requiring reChamber of Commerce was hela gards the policy of submitting sourcefulness and courage to a at Bridgetown recently when such proposals to the Combined high degree.
Captain Shepherd, Staff Officer, Court. At the same time we conconferred with members of that sider that the duties of the chief tuberculosis of the bone of the Birch, who is suffering with organization for the improvement clerk in the Secretariat cannot lower leg, was walking slowly 10of the force The scheme which be rated as less responsible wards home after school wher, This is the Captain Shepherd ontlined pro or arduous than those of any his attention attracted by a sudvides for the formation of a other department, and it is obvi den scream from a tree nearly, Volunteer Association on the ous that it any colonization he noticed a small boy caught SAFEST MILK lines of the Territorial force in scheme is put into operation the high up in the branches and England, Association to con salaries of an.
sist of 16 mllitary members, 16 agents will have to be revised eague)
representative members, and 10 and increased in the light of The crippled boy climbed to the for your home co operative members; In addition their new and even more respon top of the tree within a few inches there would be a President; His sible duties. The salaries paid in of the menacing current. On acWORLIS Excellency the Governor, and the past bave been too low.
count of the heavy voltage he did two Vice Presidents the Com not touch the child body with Sweetened Condensed YOU CAN TRUST THE mandant of the Local Forces and THE MEDICAL OFFICERS. his hands until after he had freed.
the Officer Commanding the Vol In connection with medical him from the wire.
BLUE AND WHITE unteer Force. The military mem officers who, as your Com This Birch managed to do by bers would be appointed by the missioners have already pointed taking off his vest which had from inspected herds CONSETISKUSING Governor from the Officers out, do not fall within the propos large arm holes in it, throwing it of the Local Forces and Officers ed scheme of increases we are over one of the child legs then of the Regular Army hold of opinion that the present grades jerking him from the wire. The ing appointments in Barbados, and II. sbould be abolished and Scout caugnt the little fellow in ſhe representative members that ali Government medical one of his arms, then brought would be appointed by the officers should be classed on the him down from the tree and carGovernor as followe: Two mem samo footing rising from 500 ried him to his home. There he bers nominated by the Legisla up to 700.
administered first aid treatments tive Council; three members nominated by the House of that the division of the Civil The commission is of oplnion and called the doctor.
Assembly; three members DAIRYMEN LEAGUE Service into clerical assistants nominated by the Agricultural and six classes of clerks below WILKINSON Society; two members nominated the rank of chief clerk is too by the Vestry of St Michael; minute a classification. It should three members nominated by the be simplified although it may be Contractor STANDS FOR Chamber of Commerce; and remarked that in Trinidad the three members nominated by the number of classes is even great.
and Builder Education Board. The object for er. division into probationers, including members of the Educa. two classes, of junior clerks tion Board was to get men of the and one serious clerks should House No. 20 teaching staffs so as to keep the suffice. qualifying examination 28th NOV. STREET, Cadet Corps in touch with the for entry into the class of junior Volunteer Force.
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16 Grosvenor Gardens, London. 12 July, 1923 THE PRINCE OF WALES BECOMES PRESIDENT.
It is officially announced today that the Prince of Wales has Converted to become President of the British Empire Exhibl tion. His Royal Highness has hitherto been President only of the General Committee.
Throughout all the king Dominions this will give new impetus to the growing enthasiasm for the project that will mark 1924 as the Empire All the Empire knows the Prince of Wales, and all the Empire follows him.
La 1920 the Prince made the British Empire Exhibition possible with his inspiring invitation to show that an Empire worth dying for was also worth living and working for. This further gracious step on his part of accepting the Presidency will undoubtedly create renewed confidence in this great Empire project, which will definitely open in the spring of next year.
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aid efforts are being made to reorganize the volunteer force of