2.
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deducted for pension purposes.
The effect of this de:
:duction is to reduce nis pension by a sum of Thirty five
On a previous occasion in 1912
pounds or thereby anually. when the question of exchuye rates aruse, the Memorialiat's service under the Crown was treated as one continuous service }; ani be nak buan under the impression that that ruling applied to the amount of pension an well as to the rate of exo nange. If reference be again made to said Appendix it will be ob: ; served that a period of five yeara is added on for pension purposes. This addition does not represent the five ond years service in the Naval Yard but is an allowance granted to every Governant servant after completing ten years aer:
:vice in the Colony.
The age. f compulsory retirement is now fixed at
fifty five years but this rule is not rigidly adhered to. When the memorialiat joined the service the age limit was sixty years. He is axious to have his service extended to August, 1826 mnd would respectfully point out that during his long period of tiarty four years nervice, he has only
had three pome leaves of absence an followa viz:-
In 1906
In 1913
In 161
> kantna un half pay -10 months on hair pay -------JU kontha an half pay
At present ne is on five months full pay leave pending dis:
:charge.
The Memorialist therefore humbly prays,-
That is whole service under the Crown in Hon Kong
bo treated as one continuous service and his pension allo:
:cated and allowed on that routing, and
That in the circumstances set forth be be continu ed
in the service until August, 1925.
Strathmartine Road,
28th
November, 1934.
Rowen Ewen