thom expected of her.
The precedent cannot
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I agree, and I think we can wait to see if Sir
E. Stubbs makes a proposal for some exceptional
bonus as at the end of par. 4, which would be
less objectionable than a special pension.
Meanwhile we can defer reply to Mr. Jaffe.
A.E.C.
24.5.20
چه چیکه
74.6.20
Lord,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 31 of the 21st of January, 1920,
in which you forwarded a copy of a letter from Mr. D. Jaffé with regard to the amount of his pension.
2.
The letter raises a question of principle, on which I should be glad to be informed of Your Lordship's
views,
3.
There is, I understand, no question that
Mr. Jaffé was an exceptionally able officer who carried out
with great efficiency and to the complete satisfaction of the
Government a number of public works of very considerable
magnitude and importance but I have always been under the
impression that the "special merit" clause which occurs in
somewhat similar form in the Pension Ordinaces or Regulations
of most Crown Colonies was not intended to apply to such a
case but was meant to provide for the case of an officer who
bad rendered some especial service to the State in a direction
lying wholly apart from his ordinary duties. I cannot at the
moment recall any case in which the clause was put into
operation though I have some idea that a former Protector of Chinese in the Malay Peninsula was granted a special pension
as a recognition of his services to the Government in re-
-organizing
HE RIGHT HONOURABLE
VISCOUNT MILNER, G.C.B.,
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