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Mr. Kaye could not be appointed to an established
position in the Home Service of the Post Office without a Civil Service Certificate; and in order to obtain such a Certificate Treasury authority would be required under clause 7 of the Order in Council of the 10th of Jamiary 1910 to present him to the Civil Service Commissioners. He would have to satisfy the Commissioners that he was suitable as regards health, as well as in other respects, and any steps in this direction must accordingly remain in abeyance for the present.
If his health continues to show improvement, the Postmaster: General will consider the question of granting him employment in the Home Service. In that eventuality the proposals made in the Post Office letter of the 19th instant would hold good, and up to the date of his employment in the Home Service Mr. Kaye would be regarded as a member of the Hong Kong Civil Service. In those circumstances any pension which might eventually be paid to him would be calculated on a Colonial
basis in respect of his service before that time and would be borne by the Colonial Government as regards the period up to the 31st of December 1910 when the Agencies were transferred. The Treasury would be requested to give an assurance that Mr. Kaye's service, at the date of his eventual retirement,
would be regarded as pensionable continuously from the date when his persionable service at Hong Kong began.
The Postmaster General will be glad to learn whether the Secretary of State for the Colonies concurs in this proposal,
or