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The Captain Superintendent's
Office. Rece
Reat 8 JAN 12
Police Department,
Hongkong, 21st. November, 1911.
Sir,
I have the honour to request that the
question of half-pay leave as decided in No. 5981/1911 may be referred to the Secretary of State, not by way of appeal at all,
but for the reasons I now give.
I do not claim any half-pay leave, as a right, but as a privilege for which I consider I am eligible.
I have about ten months half-pay to my
credit in respect of the whole of my resident service in the Straits Settlements, Federated Malay States and Hongkong.
When I went to England on leave in 1903 I had only been in Hongkong for fifteen months, and in consequence was only granted a short period of half-pay leave, which was however extended by the Secretary of State, so that I had no reason for
raising the question.
I consider my position with regard to half-
-pay leave differs in no way from that of a Cadet.
I have pointed out in my application to be allowed to retire some disadvantages in the way of salary that
my transfer to Hongkong entailed.
I ask therefore this favour: that I may be
granted two months half-pay leave at the expiration of my vacation leave, so that I may, for that period, receive more than
a pension will amounts to
There is provision in the Estimates for
full pay up to March, 1912.
I have etc.,
(sd.) F. W. Lyons,
Captain Superintendent of Police.
The Honourable
The Colonial secretary.