Highest Salary?

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30442, 16 May 1964, Page 3

Highest Salary?

The committee t-ecommended that the Secretary to the Treasury should command a higher salary than that of any other permanent head. Though the Treasury position had been retained in group 1, it proposed that he be paid a margin of £250 a year above the rate for that group.

Other executives in group I will receive £4700. They are the Solicitor-General (previous salary £3750), the Director of Education (£3750), the Director-General of Health (£4000), the direc-tor-general of the Post Office (£3750), Secretary of External Affairs (£3750), the General Manager of Railways (£3750), the chairman of the State Services Commission (£3750) and the Commissioner of Works (£4000). Salaries of £4lOO will be paid to executives in group II: The directorgeneral of Agriculture (previously . £3500), the controller and auditor-gene-ral (£3500), the Comptroller

of Customs (£3250), the Secretary of Defence (new post), the general manager of the Electricity Department (£3250), the director-general of the Forest Service (£3250), the Secretary of Industries and Commerce (£3500), the Commissioner of Inland Revenue (£3500), the Secretary of Justice (£3250), the Secretary of Labour (£3500), the Director-General of Lands (£3250), the Secretary of Maori Affairs and Island Territories (£3250), the Under-Secretary of Mines (£3250), the Public Trustee (£3250), the director-general of the Scientific and Industrial Research (£3500). Group 111 which will receive salaries of £3500 include: the Director of Civil Aviation (£2800); the Commissioner, Government Life Insurance Office (£3000); the Government Printer (£2800); the Secretary of Internal Affairs (£3000); the Law Draftsman (£3000); the Secretary of Marine (£2800); the Director of Social Security (£3000); the General Manager, State insurance office (£3000); the Government Statistician (£3250); the general manager of the Tourist and Publicity Dept. (£2800); the Commissioner of Transport (£2800); and the Valuer - General (£2800). “We have omitted from our groupings the positions of Navy, Army and Air secretaries, since some re-arrange-ment appears to be in contemplation,” said the committee. “In these circumstances, we have no recommendation to make, except that their salaries be fixed in relation to their new responsibilities by the appropriate authority.”