Civil Service Salaries
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Commissioner For Fiji
MR. E. MILLS, a retired member of the Colonial Service, has been ap pointed a Commissioner to inquire into Civil Service salaries in Fiji.
He is expected to arrive in Suva bv on May 8. His terms of reference will be: To review and make recommenda tions upon the remuneration of officers in permanent posts in the Civil Services in Piii (other than those on hourly or daily rates of pay), with special reference to the need to attract and retain nrofessional and other staff of a standard necessary to maintain an adequate public service.
Mr. Mills has just completed a similar survev in Jamaica. He was born in 1892 and in 1920 was appointed to the Colonial Administrative Service in Palestine.
When he retired in 1947 he was Commis sioner for Migration and Statistics. He spent a further year in Palestine as a Commissioner on Special Duty and in 1949 began the salaries revision in Jamaica.