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that it would apply to all that entered the Government
Service of Hongkong, whether as Cadets or not, after the
1st. March, 1894. By this rule the officers other than
education officers get one month's less vacation leave in
every two years' residence in the Colony than education
officers who still have the two months' school vacations
in each year. Further a non-education officer who has had
the full vacation leave due to him under No. 133 of the
Rules and Regulations of His Majesty's Colonial Service
1.0.9 months in the course of 6 years' service is only
entitled to 6 weeks' full pay leave when taking half-pay
leave in England at the expiration of that period. On the
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were held to be entitled to three months' full pay leave
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when taking the half-pay leave due to hem after 6 years'
residential service. This was the view taken in paragraph
4 of Mr. Chamberlain's Despatch No. 373 of the 4th. December
1900, and promulgated in the Colony by Sir Henry Blake and
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there seems no reason to believe that the later Despatch
No. 406 of the 28th. December of that year was intended to 00
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override Lord Ripon's of the 14th. December, 1893, which
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or
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