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REPORT
to the UNDER SECRETARY of STATE,
The COLONIAL OFFICE.
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(YOUR LETTER No.26454/21 DATED THE 24th. JULY1923. (Pension Scheme of Hong Kong, and, incidentally, those (of Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States.
I have the honour to report the results of my consideration of your letter above-cited in connexion with the documents specified in its paragraphs 1 and 3. I have, after some experiments, framed the Report in the form which finally appeared to be the clearest and most convenient to you.
It is desirable, first, to define the two principal terms employed in this Report, and thus avoid prolixity or variation :-
CURRENT pensions are pensions actually in course of payment to the widows and orphans of members who have aled; while by
PROSPECTIVE pensions is intended those which may become payable to the widows and orphans of members who hereafter die.
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despatch
No. 164 from Hong Kong
THE FIRST AND SECOND PARAGRAPHS OF YOUR LETTER. The despatch from Hong Kong No. 164, dated 13th. (April 1921; and (The Treasurer's Minute, dated the 24th. March 1921.
Paragraph 2 is dealt with in my observations upon paragraph 4 of your letter;
Paragraph 3 and the Treasurer's Minute are considered in my remarks upon paragraph 7 of your letter; Faragraph 4 is discussed in my comments upon paragraph 6 of your Tetter.