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The Under-Secretary of State,"
Foreign Office,
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FOREIGN OFFICE. S.7.1.
6th November,1926.
In reply to Sir G. Grindle's letter of the 27th Yeas
The
18640/26) regarding the remuneration of the Chief
Justice of Hongkong for acting as Appeal Judge at shanghai,
I am directed by Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain to request
you to inform Mr. Secretary Amery that he fears that no
useful purpose would be served by re-opening the subject
with the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury.
Treasury decision is based on an objection raised by the
Comptroller and Auditor-General to the present method of
recording in the accounts the financial transactions now in
question, and it would appear that the Treasury have taken the
only course legitimately open to them.
2. I am to observe that the effect of the alternative
referred to in the second paragraph of the letter from this
department of September 10th last would be to render Sir
Skinner Turner liable for increased super-tax, Moreover, the
fact that the Chief Justice of Hongkong receives his salary
free of British income tax, whereas tax is levied in the
case of Sir Skinner Turner, already destroys the equality
which the Gover or of Hongkong was anxious to secure.
fore to ask that the position may
3.
I am,
be explained to Sir H. Gollan, and to express the hope that
he will not insist on an arrangement that will place on
Sir Skinner Turner a burden from which he has hitherto been
exempt, in order to secure the semblance of a uniformity
which,/
Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.