Sir,
ENCLOSURE
488
VE 19 JAN 3
Magistracy, Hong-Kong.
30th November, 1897.
I
In accordance with the Honourable the Colonial Secretary's minute of the 27th instant, I have the honour to make the following report:-
My case, owing to my compulsory retirement on pension and my subsequent re-call to duty after the lapse of two years and one month during which I had considered myself severed from the Government, is a peculiar one, and as far as I can see there is nothing in the Ordinance that would govern such a case.
My request to the Government is that on my re-instatement in the Government service in my former position on the 2nd instant, I am by the rules of the service entitled to all my former privileges as to service &c., though no break in my service had occurred, and I now wish to be re-instated with reference to Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Fund in a similar manner.
There is no provision in the Ordinance...
The Honourable
H. E. Wodehouse, C.M.G.
Police Magistrate.
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