of service;
10
h. p.
(2) Tropical Africa, where the rate
equivalent to
for European Officers is/1_th;
40
(3) The intermediate class, where the
pension rate is_1_th but an addition of
60
5 ths is allowed on account of climate. 60
5 the
Although I shall of course be prepared to
consider any evidence which you may desire
to bring forward on this point, I must say
that as at present advised I see no
sufficient reason to suppose that Hong
Kong is not correctly included in the
last-mentioned class; and I should be
reluctant if it can be avoided, to place
it in a class by itself. It is possible,
of course, that if the question were being
considered de novo a somewhat different
system pension/might be adopted in respect of
this class of Colonies generally, though
I think that the present arrangements on
the whole work satisfactorily. In this
connection I may observe that an
Interdepartmental Committee which sat in
1908
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