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Leave.
Pensions.
Climate.
Clothing.
Cost of
Living, &c.
A surveyor on a three years' agreement is not ordinarily eligible for leave except sick leave but if he is transferred to the permanent staff he will normally
be eligible for 9 months leave on full pay and free return passages in respect of each four years of resident service, his 3 years under agreement being included in
his first tour.
The present rule as to superannuation is that, in the case of ill-health, a officer holding a pensionable appointment may be allowed to retire on a pension after tenyears' continuous service; otherwise he must have attained the age of 55. For ten full years' service and upwards one seven-hundred-and-twentieth of the annual salary of the retiring officer for each completed month of service may be awarded, together with an addition of five sixtieths of such salary, provided that the total pension shall not exceed forty sixtieths of such salary.
For pension No pension may exceel £1,300 per annum.
purposes leave on full pay counts as full service, and leave on half pay as half service.
The winter climate of Hong Kong is usually dry and bright, with a keen North wind when the Monsoon is strong. The summer climate is hot and somewhat damp, but not actually unhealthy.
Winter clothing should be obtained from home and should be such as could be worn on a mild winter day at home. Many people feel the cold of a Hong Kong winter almost as much as at home. Summer clothing should be obtained in the colony where it is fairly cheap.
It is impossible to give a satisfactory estimate of the cost of living in Hong Kong, because so much depends upon the tastes and habits of the individual. But the following information is taken from a Hand-book on conditions and cost of living in Hong Kong compiled by the Colonial Government from records up to 1925/-
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