to, deprives invalids of a moiety of their and allowances at the time when,
pay
More
than
any
their means.
other, they require
all
I will state.
ony
cwn case as an
average example. My half salary will.
amount to £. 175 per
the whole
ann num,
of which is required by the most economical means of transport to defray any passage
to England and back again
this leaving
to the Colony,
one dependent upon the
kindness or rather charity of friends, if,
indeed, my long.
absence has left mo ang
to whom. I could look for
such
(afcictance)
and, if not, I must spend the whole of
my
allowance, and
even
ntually
the Colony
return to
encumbered with a debt incurre
for my passage oit, from which it may
Ce years before I am enabled to clear
be
myself.
In effect, this Regulation subjects
the absentee cither to ponury or dependence
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England, or subaquent debt on his
return to the Colony ; providing in the
time no
adequate.
absence, the duties
the
aneand
(mean)
by which during
of his office:
can
be
performed; which, apparently is the only
argument. brought forward in support
system, the operation of which, I respectfully submits, places officers of the frown
frown in positions positions
:tions which they
ought hover to occupy, more particularly
after,
as in
years service.
the se
my case, upwards of
ten
It is apparent, I think, that
lations were
regulations
ed to meet the
: framed
ies so
requirements of the old American and West India Establishments, and never intended to apply in their full forced to Colonies dictant from the mother country Hongkong, where they are frequently
found
as a total
to act as a
leave, and
as
prohibition of
many, consequently, sink under-