Song Hong
Greasy. No. 5381
Office or Individual.
(Subject.)
DOMESTIC.
75
ALC
C.0.
15 MAY 1976
Treasury Mr To W Mitchell's Pension Claims
Date.
1875-
Before deciding on, enquires if serving in Hongkong should be deemed an unhealthy place
Last previous Paper.
4.349
Lower
Dec 17/20
M. Meade.
4. Walter
(Minutes.)
I do not know what action has been taken on the other letter. but with regard to Hongkong I think the answer should be that the Hongkong Pension minute frees officers, who have served over 10 years this in addition to the rate allowed under Imperial rules, & also allows them to retire at the age of 55; that these provisions were adopted in that Colony as well as in some other Colonies in the tropics on the assumption that service there was more arduous owing partly to effects of climate, than in England that in his Lordship's opinion many suffer fairly meet the necessities of the case
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