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Lordship by Mark Euen, R.M., the Assistant Harbour Master of Hongkong
The important post
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of Superintendent of the Police in the European Municipality at Shanghai has been offered to Mr. McEuen, with salary of one thousand pounds (£1000) per annum, besides liberal allowances, and a pension after ten years' service. His request is that he be permitted to accept this offer;
may the Civil Service of Hongkong for years, after which period his claim
and that he
on the Colonial Government for pension would absolutely lapse. He desires... that, if his health should break down at Shanghai before the expiration of ten years' service there, he may be able to avail himself of his right to pension for his long-
and meritorious service in this and
in other Colonies. Those services extend over seventeen (17) years; to which, as the whole of his time was
be seconded in
ten
-passed in unhealthy climates, he is entitled to add a further period of five years, making twenty-two years
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