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wholly to the benefit of members of the fund in the shape of increases to the prospective pensions of the widows and orphans of the contributors to the fund at the date of the valuation, and of former contributors who had ceased to contribute on attaining the age of 65 or on leaving the service, as well as of increases to the existing pensions of the widows and orphans of those who have died since the 31st of December 1900, the date of the last valuation in such shares and proportions as shall be recommended by the Actuary.
Whether the members of the Fund have any legal claim under the original ordinance to participate in the whole or indeed in any part of such surplus may be a matter of argument. It was however recognized that if the Government took over the Fund it was desirable that the contributors should not feel that they had