asked the Minister of Health the method adopted by the Registrar-General in assessing the proposed salaries of registrars under the schemes to be put into operation in consequence of the 1931 Act?

As the schemes referred to determine the remuneration of many salaried registrars who give different degrees of part-time service only, the basis adopted in such schemes is, in the first place, to fix the whole-time salary rate applicable to each grade of registrarship, and, secondly, to provide an assessment, subject to review, of the proportion of whole-time service required for the performance of the duties of each registrar-ship. Each scheme is prepared for my approval by the local authority in consultation with the Registrar-General, who advises on the first item with a view to securing reasonably uniform salary scales throughout the country, and on the second item by affording the experience of his Department as to the matters of fact involved.