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computed in all cases where officers are entitled to free quarters
or rent allowance in lieu thereof.
6. In the case of all Civil Servants such allowance or the
alternative of free quarters is considered as part of the
emoluments attaching to the appointment.
Your Petitioners are
the only Indian Officers in the service of the Government for
whom such allowance is not included in the amount on which their
pension is assessed. Attached to this Petition is a table showing
the difference the additional one-sixth would make to the pensions
of officers retiring at various lengths of service.
7. The principle of adding housing allowance at the rate of
one-sixth to the average salary for assessment of pension applies
to all Indian members of the Prison Department of whatever rank.
It may here be observed that Indian Officers of the Police
Force cannot earn the maximum pension attached to their rank until
after thirty five years' service where as the maximum can be
reached by Europe an officers after twenty five years' service.
8.
9. Your Petitioners have recently been notified that in yet
another direction they may expect to suffer hard ship in relation
to the amount payable to them on pension.
10. It appears from a notice which has been drawn to their
attention that the compensation in exchange, which pensioners
have been receiving since the value of the dollar in relation to
the Rupee in India fell about eight years ago, is to be discon-
tinued although Your Petitioners desire to observe that conditions
which led to such compensation being granted are the same to-day,
if not worse.
11. In 1930 the Hong Kong Government agreed to pay pensions
to all retired India domiciled officers at a minimum exchange
rate of Hong Kong $100 equals 112 Rupees.
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