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their grievances in this respect may be, I can
see no case for meeting them by the payment of
pensions at an artificially high rate. If
their conditions of service are bad, they should
surely be met by an improvement in salaries and
not
other conditions and by the maintenance of a
privilege which has little to recommend it in
principle and which might prove embarrassing.
? Reply that the Secretary of State
is, in another despatch, approving the Governor's
proposals in (1). Say that if the Indian
the
officers in/Hong Kong Civil Service feel that
they have grievances with regard to their
conditions of service, it is open to them to
address the Head of their Department or the
Governor upon these, and if necessary to petition
the Secretary of State, and that if this is done
their claims will receive due consideration.
in Sis.
Say that he does not, however, regard it as
desirable that any claims which they may have
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should be met by the payment of pensions at an
artificially high rate and that he is not prepared,
therefore, to intervene on their behalf.
And
ask that the petitioners may be informed accordingly.
P. Roges
3/10/38.
Suchant
2.J. Jeffre 5.9.7.7
610.38
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