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assume in Samoa the functions now entrusted to the New Zealand Public Service Commission and it will, in addition, be specially charged with the duty of working out methods of advancing locally recruited officers to more responsible positions.
Members of the Service are conveniently divided into three main groups : New Zealand seconded officers ; locally recruited European (usually part-Samoan) officers ; and Samoan officers. The numbers in each group at 31st March, 1949, were as follows :
The figures for European officers (local and other) represent mainly locally recruited officers of European status, but they also include a number of officers recruited outside the Territory who are not members of the New Zealand Public Service on secondment. In many branches of the Public Service the division between locally recruited European officers and Samoan officers has no administrative significance. Clerks, radio operators, draughtsmen, translators and interpreters, typists, office-assistants, and telephone-exchange attendants are employed under the same conditions and paid the same salaries, whether they are Samoans or Europeans. The number of public servants in these classes at 31st March, 1949, was 135. Of this total, 81 positions were held by Europeans and 54 by Samoans. Salary scales for these officers were as follows : Annual Salaries, Including Cost-of-living Allowance Males Females (Clerks, Radio Operators, (Typists, Office-assistants, Draughtsmen). Exchange Attendants). £ £ 65 ] 65 95 | 95 105 | 105 125 125 145 145 175 160 200 185 220 J 195 " 255 | 215 275 | 230 295 | 255 328 1 275 350 i 29 °1 Typists 375 j 305 s 410 | 335 J * ' 430 445 465 | 480 I
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Department. Seconded Officers. European Officers (Local and Other). ! I Samoan Officers. [ Government House 2 1 Secretariat 2 ii 1 Samoan Affairs 2 5 ! 20 Treasury and Customs 4 18 6 Justice, Labour, and Public Trust .. .. i 2 8 1 Broadcasting 2 8 1 Education 22 28 403 Health 13 18 209 Lands and Survey 2 5 9 Postal 2 10 6 Public Works 4 7 ! 13 Radio 5 9 19