urgently needing help, and compassionate
ascending being voted to them
grants accordingly
This has occurred chiefly
& Nation
B
Ther
Eurasian class in, but not exclusively. That class are about
A
to receive 20% increase to their pay, and it would not perhaps be hard to make the condition in their case that they shall contribute 4% to their fund that they will not
of Sam suffer the slight diminutions which
W.S.O. And seeing
we are
in the case of
proposing Europeans officers by
Non
perhaps
f
Ner
reduction in the rate of Exchange
tables in use
in Most Colonies
should not be applicable to
Hongkong.
I have drafted
for consideration in par.
434
accordingly.
desire on the salaries question
(m 1598)
J.M.912 June 90
I agree 857 12.6.20
If the We
may perhaps
now in their
service
of country
that European officers
who decline voluntarily to join the Fund for the have already sufficiently
income)
may be
themselves. I know that some of them have insured and have considerable sums for the
purpose by means
of Family Remittances
Of course if the Fund is started, it must be made compulsory
to all
future entries into the service whether
of Europeans
or
Eurasians, as
has been done in other Colonies where it Exists, and in that case the contributors will
more
be of
a mixed class of lives than those exist at the Straits, together
I know Mauritius of therefore why the actuarial
calculation
reason
exists