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Twelfth Schedule. —This provides for the grades and salaries of Inspectors of Schools. It has been pointed out that such officers would be in the Professional Division of the Public Service, and the salaries should agree with the clauses and subdivisions of the salaries of the officers of the Professiona Division as shown in the Second Schedule of the Public Service Act, 1912. Such a schedule as the following would serve the purpose : — Salary. Grade. Minimum. Maximum. £ £ Chief Inspector .. .. .. .. .. .. 600 650 Senior Inspector .. .. .. .. .. .. 550 575 Inspector .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 500 525 Assistant Inspector .. .. .. .. .. 420 480 Part 11, paragraph (c). —It seems to be unnecessary, and in any case it traverses the Public Service Act, 1912, and I therefore suggest its omission. I should be happy to answer questions on any other points in the Bill to which I have not referred. Addendum.—Two ladies who gave evidence —Miss Birss and Miss Simpson—asked that, in column 5 of the table in Part I of the Sixth Schedule, in the last two lines of the table the grade of the fifth assistant should be 4 instead of 3. This would agree with the grades of the first three positions in the lines suggested to be added to Tables (ii) and (iii) of Part 11, as the position in mixed schools assigned to women could not be lower than the second, fifth, and sixth —that is, Grades 5, 4, and 3.

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