:
214
Years' Service.
Number of Salary on
Retirement
Retiring Pension prior
or
Promotion.
to Deduction.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH APRIL, 1870.
SUPPOSED CASES IN ILLUSTRATION OF THE FOREGOING RULES.
Retiring Pension from
Total Retiring Pension.
Amount of Deduction.
each Colony
after Deduction.
£
£
£ 8. d.
£ s. d.
£ S. d.
3. L
Case of A. B.
4
First employment
10
200
Second employment..
20
1,000
1 × 200 33 6 8 30 × 1,000-500 0 0
Nil. 33 6 8
33 6 8
466 13 4
Total Service..]
30
500 0 0
Case of C. D.
First employment
26
800
Second employment...
4
1,000
HE
× 800=346 13 4 × 880=440 0 0
Nil. 346 13 4
346 13 4
93
6 8
Total Service..
30
440 0 0
Case of E. F.
First employment
Second employment..
10
200
60
x 200= 33 6 8
10
400
X
Third employment..
Total Service.
10
800
34 X
400133 800==400
38 0 0
Nil. 33 6 8 133 6 8
33 100 0 0 260 13 4
6 8
....
30
400
0.0
Case of G. H.
First employment
10
200
18x 200= 33 6 8
Nil.
33 6 8
Second employment,
+
without Retiring
10
1,000
Allowance
Third employment.
10
800
20 x 800=266 13 4
30 x 800-400 0 0
266 13 4
133
6 8
....
Total Service..
30
166 13
•
The case of A. B. shews the simple application of the 1st and 2nd Rules, in Colonies which simply follow the Imperial Rules.
That of C. D. shews the application of Rule 6 in reducing the rate of salary to the average of 10 years (hers to £880.) If in these two cases the first employing Colony does not grant any Retiring Pension, then, under the 4th Rule, the Pension of A. B. (for twenty years' service) will be reduced to £466 13s. 4d., and that of C. D. (for four years' service) to £93 68. Ed.
Again, if in these cases the last employing Colony be Ceylon or Hongkong, in which Officers of ten years' standing are allowed an addition of 5 years to their actual service in calculating their Pensions, then, under the 5th Rule, A. B. (having served more than ten years) would receive an addition to his Pension of (5 × £1,000≈) £83 6s. Ed.; but C. D., having served only 4 years, would receive no such bonus.
The case of E. F. illustrates the 3rd Rule.
The case of G. H. shews the effect of the 4th and 7th Rules on an Officer who has served in a Colony where no Retiring Pension is allowed.
Νο. 47.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Decision of the Marine Court of Inquiry into the Loss of the British Barque Renown on the Southernmost Island (Angores) of the Pellew Island Group, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 26th April, 1870.
FINDING.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
The Court having considered the evidence adduced conclude:- First.That the British Barque Renown, Official Number 28,750, 440.35 Tons, was totally wrecked. on the Southernmost Island (Angores) of the Pellew Island Group, on the 10th February, 1870. Second.-The Course steered by the Master from Noon of the previous day, when good observations were obtained, was an improper one as leading the Ship far too near to Islands incompletely surveyed and where the Currents are known to be uncertain.
Third.—We find that the Ship was deficient of persons competent to take charge of the Watches, the Crew consisting of the Master, one Mate, one acting Boatswain, one Carpenter and nine others i the consequence of which was that the Master and Mate had to keep alternate Watches, an arrangement much to be deprecated.