stated that the Directors & the Exec Cel
unanmandy agreed to
nandy agreed to the taking
of
:
onver
The subsequent
the Fund by
was by they the questions werent has dealt with the questions whether
came
the new
chiefly
Ceylon tables might without undue mak be adapted in Hongkong, & whether the practice peculiar to Hongkong, of ad- mitting bhinese to the Fund affected the Fund seriously
one
way
or the other.
This report does not clear up these question very completely, but I think it
is
sufficie to justify (a) our
Kongkong the same
the new
tables
Ao
grving
Strants, 1.0.
beylon tables; & (b) continuing the
rule of admitting Chinese.
There is
some doubt.
one point however
wh. I feel
blause 19 of the Longkg. Pension
Mite allows commutation of pension at 5 you purchase with the provis's that commutation shall not ordinarily be
of retirement on
allavi
hyukth
14
cade
This special rule
va
Kangkong mainly to meet the
allowed
Lame
of
in bhana
to live at places now
bhinese going
of pension wd be difficult where paymnt of pension wo
impracticable.
bhina
&
A somewhat similar provision has
23 of the
лого дата
A
be inserted in a. Andce. 15. 1900. to provide for the commutation of widow. pensions when they rende
or in other countries where payment ro
The report (and. 2. in impracticable.
14147/99) that payment of pension in such places
mool frequently impracticable.
90 yo
as China Ar
In per 3 of 10913/03 is is stated that commutation had hitherto been
allowed
under this clause but in the
A
Yes Br
to retain
P. S. to end. I in 6604/04 the Directors deare
the provision as to arise.
ame
likely
the Fund being young not many???
477
pensions have at present accoued, & cases naturally may arise in the future /
In the present br. Mr Young gives on wh such cominestation
a
table
not in
is
may properly be based & adds the suggestion that commutation old ordin- anity be refused where the widow
a state of average health, which suggestion corresponds with the proviss to the commutation clause of the Pension Minite referred to above.
But it previously escaped our
notice that
on
ne.
а
widows pension clases
1. marriage (1.25 of Ord 15 of 1900) commutation of her si aron is aberously
disadvantageons to the favs if the
is
AL-
young
widow without
any
children, & remarries shortly after. having her pension commuted.
On the other hand. if
allow commutation we rem
we do not
some rick
& alar
f
of impersonation in case of widows going to the interior of China, the difformity concealment of remarriage I think we and, leave the commut- ation clause as it stands for the present but point out these difficulties to the
ask whether there Gov.,
probability
Y
---
of large proportion of widows going
away to China & Some light may
claming commutation,
be thrown on this point
if they will state how frequently similar
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