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not fade that are:
Conditions
g
: thing has been done to receive the destreming
the retired Colonial Dervento, who stand much in
need of pecuniary assistance (not as a
charity but no o
rightquets claim) by the respection Colonial govemments to which
they were formerly attached.
personally,
a bameter - al-law, having stand the HoryKory
Gouronment for 30 years.
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20 years of which I was Deputy Rigestiar
of the Honghong Supreme Couest - retired in Jannem 1915, on a
in
pension of £423-10-0 per annum. This sean, prior to the War, would han bên sufficient to han kept met my wife, respectability, if not comfort. It's purchasing volue is now some- what under £200-white
maz
Incence Tax alone is about £35.
In addition I han the unusual misfortune of an insatia wife who for the past 6 years has never been free from doctors,
invalid instrument makers.
Chemists or
parvates patient in Torbay
July August last one was a Hospital, Torquay, for my wriks, at a cost to me of 31 quiners. Since then I han lakin her up to hondow to teneult a Specialist with reference to her case, with the result that next month, ahe enters Guy's Hospital as a private patient at 5 Junias per with in order to han her leg ampentated.
All this corts money - smexpected expenditure
although
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I cannot expect, nor do I desire, the Hong Kong Gout to place my pension of £423-10-0 to the same purchasing power at present, as it had before the War, yet I de
affir
expect