added the climate bonus to the second period of service, & disregarded altogether his first 5 years employment in the Police.
As there is no evidence that he was continuously employed under the Crown from 1874 to 1879 his service in India may have been not under the Crown before 1872, & the service in Ceylon was probably of short duration.
and as it is the custom for numbers of Policemen in Hongkong to take their discharge at the end of the 5 years, for which they enlisted, & I believe, get a small gratuity, I should doubt its being a case of his being regularly "transferred from one force to another; they would say nothing about his earlier service. He probably returned as he found he could better himself during his second period of service, which ended on the 31st March with a salary of over £30 a year & has earned a claim to a pension under Clause 2 of about $200, which is a little more than a man of this class in Hongkong usually gets.
Simply sanction the allowance proposed $893.33 from May 1890 at $93.33.
6.7.90
Min. 25161/90
RM 2576
144-2.
My Lord,
Government House, Hongkong, 8th May, 1890.
I have the honour to report that on the recommendation of the Acting Superintendent of Victoria Gaol, and with the advice of the Executive Council, I have granted a pension
The Right Honourable Lord Knutsford, G.C.M.G.,
etc. etc. etc.
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Received 18 JUN 30
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