C. O.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr. Parkinson.
Mr. Tomlinson.
Sir C. Bottomley.
Sir J. Shuckburgh.
Permt. U.S. of S.
Parly. U.S. of S.
Secretary of State.
DRAFT.
The Treasury letter of
the 16th of February, 1924,
rejecting the proposal for pension
contributions (which would have
avoided the present difficulty)
directed that as charges matured
for the pensions of officers
appointed to Wei-hai-Wei from the
Consular Service the proportion of
them that would be payable from
Wei-hai-Wei funds should after the
retrocession of that territory be
a charge on the Colonial Services
Vote.
is
Your view, as I understand
it, is that this direction limits
any payments from the Vote to the pay-
amounts
mente which, but for rendition,
would have been made under the
Wei-hai-Wei Pensions Ordinance.
That that view was not taken at the
time