Lokal
We have never had one of the party papers of particulars for ordinary civil servants. I do not feel at all sure that that figure has been correctly arrived at.
It is certainly curious why he should have been allowed to continue to draw his Police Good Conduct pay after leaving the Police. But in calculating pension, I always avoid going back to the previous reasons why a man did or did not get certain allowances, but count his retiring allowance on what he had got.
My idea of the position is that he was transferred in 20/02/86 to the ordinary civil service, that he only served a short time in his new capacity, he broke down in health and as a Civil servant under the rules should have been retired as pertaining to that service; they could easily have paid his passage home as an advance, and it would be deducted from his pension; but I am not sure that as a civil servant dating from before 1871 he would not be entitled to a free passage home on retirement.
But this is practically to reverse what was settled in 1898; so that perhaps it is simpler to inform him, W.W. Grey, that a further report on his case has been received from the Governor, but that as it appears he was allowed to receive the full cost of his passage home, though he had left the Police, the Secretary of State for the Colonies is not prepared to reopen the question of the amount of the retiring allowance which had been awarded to him under the Police Rule.
Forward to Colonial Office, R.24/12
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