(21.442). Wt.32,696-3. 6000. 2/10. A.&E.W.
9058-28. 6000. 8/10.
(26,462).
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No.
4/5
sir,
CO
551
Gobernment House
8th. December, 1910.
52
With reference to Colonial Office
Regulation No. 100, I have the honour to state that Mr. J.
I. Plummer Chief Assistant in the Hongkong Observatory,
has applied for leave of absence on full pay for 4 months
from the 10th. of next January and has expressed his
desire to retire from active service at the end of that
period. Mr. Plummer has already passed the age of 65 years
and has put in 20 years and 2 months (nearly) of active
service, less 8 months on half-pay in 1905, or 19 years
and 10 months for the purpose of reckoning the amount of
pension.
2.
In the circumstances, as there are
several precedents for allowing vacation leave prior to
M.P.,
-ing case I have, subject to your sanction, informed RIGHT HONOURABLE
LEWIS HARCOURT,
retirement on pension, and as this is a specially deserv-
Mr.
&C...
&c.
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