Hong Kong Government to amond the law so as to admit contributions from the officors
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If
• concerned, and to administer the schemo. so, the contributions as they fell due, and the 6 per cent compound interest, would be transferred to the Hong Kong Post Office for the Government of Hong Kong; and it is assumed that all payments, of pensions etc. would then be made by that Government,
I am, Sir,
Your obodient Servant,
ItWilliamson
sir,
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TREASURY CHAUBERS.
C.O
24 February 1910.
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RES REL APR 19
In reply to your Report of the 7th August last, (164024/17), relative to arrangements for securing widows' pensions for members of the staff of the British Post Office Agencies in China, I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of His ajesty's Treasury to say that as regards those members of the staff who are in receipt of salaries exceeding Two-hundred and Forty Dollars and who are not already contributors to the Local Pensions Fund, They consider it desirable that arrangements should be made, if possible, to amend the Incal law so as to enable them to become contributors forthwith, and that their contributions should be credited to your Department, which would in due course repay to the Hong Kong Government all suns issued to such contributors by way of pensions and refunds. My Lords trust that that Goverment will be prepared to administer the schone in the sane marmer as for its own employees. Contributors will of course have to abide by the normal rules of the Fund as regards the rates and periods of deduction from pay and pension (including in non-pensionable cases compassionate allowance) and the benefits guaranteed, but My stmaster General.
Lords