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Inclosure 1.
My Lord Duke,
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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
RECE HONGKONG. 26th May, 1923.
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OOL OFFIC
With reference to my despatch No.85 of the
5th of March, I have the honour to forward the enclosed paper of particulars of the pension of Mr. T. L. Perkins, Director of Public Works,
2.
The pension calculated in accordance with the rules applicable to the case amounts to £539. 13. 2 a year and I have no hesitation in saying that this sum is an entirely inadequate retiring allowance for an officer who has rendered such admirable service to the Colony. The work done by the Public Works Department, especially in the matter of roads and reclamations, during recent years has been remarkable both in quantity and in quality and the comments which have been made to me by numerous visitors from other countries justify me in saying that the improve- ments which have been effected in the Colony do credit to the British Empire. This satisfactory position is due very largely to Mr. Perkins, who has for years past been rightly regarded as the backbone of the department.
3.
My sense of the value of his services both as an Engineer and as head of a department is such that I should have confidently invited Your Grace to approve the grant to him of a special pension on the ground of
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, K.G.,
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extraordinary
TC.U. D. NO. FIJ