No. 13
Hongkong.
My Lord,
48
CO 4758
Government House,
Hongkong, 12th.January,1910.
I have the honour to inform Your
Lordship that the question has been raised as to whether
Officers whose date of appointment is prior to the 1st.
July, 1897, and who are therefore entitled when on leave
in a gold using country to draw salary at the rate of four
shillings to the dollar are entitled to draw at that rate
when on board ship en route
either to or from the Colony.
The practice hitherto has been not to allow Officers this
privilege on the return voyage to the Colony. There does
not appear, however, to be any authoritative rule by which
they can be deprived of the privilege during such voyage.
The practice referred to seems to have grown out of the
circumstance that whereas salary in respect of the voyage
to the gold using country is drawn through the Crown Agents
in sterling, the salary in respect of the return voyage to
Hongkong is drawn on arrival in the Colony in dollars. There
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
is
THE EARL OF CREWE,
&C...
800-s
800-