Passages.
Salary on Voyage.
Leave.
Pensions
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Climate.
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sum of the rent and taxes payable in respect of the unfurnished tenement. For the purpose of this regulation the maximum rental inclusive of taxes which is recognised by the Government in the case of an officer whose salary does not exceed £600 is $150 a month.
Ordinarily an unmarried officer will not be allowed a rent allowance as the sole tenant of a rented tenement.
Only one rent allowance is payable in
respect of any tenement.
An officer who, with the permission of the Colonial Secretary, does not reside in Government quarters or in a tenement in respect of which a rent allowance is payable receives a lodging allowance as follows;-
(a) If married, 15 per cent . of his salary subject to a maximum of $100 a month.
(b) If unmarried, 7 per cent of his salary subject to a maximum of $50 a month.
An officer is provided with a free First Class passage on first appointment. If his agreement is not renewed upon its expiration a return passage will be provided.
An officer will receive half-pay at £110 for the period of the voyage to Hong Kong and if his service is not continued after the expiration of his agreement he will receive half-pay (at current rate) for the period of the voyage home.
An educational officer on a three years' agreement is not ordinarily eligible for leave apart from school vacation but after four years resident service is eligible for 8 months' leave on full pay and a free return passage.
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The present rule as to superannuation is that, in the case of ill-health, an officer holding a pensionable appointment may be allowed to retire on a pension after ten years' continuous service; ctherwise he must have attained the age of 55. ten full years' service & 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. No pension may exceed £1,300 per annum. For re nsion 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
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