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we have the hover respectfully to represent to your Excellency hat should this decision be casried into effect some if
not all of us
us will after
lengthened service be deprived of all hope of
Sension.
ever
obtaining
We are all officers of
more
thum 16
years
service
in the Colony, and in such
climate
as
Houghong it is
bardly probable that we
expect to retain sufficient
health to serve
n
manry
years
ean
more
"When we had the choice
ben ih
on not to the
of contributing Superannuation Fund the
Pension
were
prospects of a both remote and uncertain,
our
Salaries were emnall and the expenses of living large and our whole incomes were required in order to procure the ordinary of life.
necessaries
Several officers who did not originally contribute have since been specially
the
permitted to pay up arrears and be thereby placed same footing
Offices, and
as
on
the other
that your Excellency
we earnestly trust your Excellency will be