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Copy.
No. 3335/1927.
sir.
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Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hong Kong,
17th July, 1928.
I am directed to acknowlxge the receipt of
your telegram of 8th June, 1928, and to confim my telegraa of 6th July, 1928, informing you that this Goverment agrees to the inter-scheduling of Hong Kong: ani ibraltar for
pension purposes with effect from lst April, 1927. The Hong Kong Pension inute is being amended in accordance with
the policy explained in my letter of loth pril, ala, Wich
the proposed manisante bave received the sanction of the
Scoretary of State, a copy of this inute will be forvarti ed
to you.
2. The arrangesents now adoptai will affect the i
calculation of the pension of r. J. B. Grook, C.B.. A
statement of the aggregate pensionable doluante drawn by
hia in respcot of his service in Now! Kon:: was forwarded to
Fecretary of State in ir. Southorn'a dewatch lio.427 of
14th October, 1927. This statement, however, did not take
account of the principle now being adopted namely that the
agregate mount of the pensionable solutunte should be
taken as tim total amount of salary which the officer would
have drewn had he been on duty on full pay in his substantive
post throughout his period of service. (Pensions Report
The Honourable
The Colonial Secretary,
GIBRALTAR.
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