TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
MR. MALCOLM MACDONALD,
M. P., HIS MAJESTY'S
SECRETARY OF STATE FOR
THE COLONIES.
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THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE UNDERSIGNED
INDIAN OFFICERS ON THE PERMANENT
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE HONG KONG CIVIL
SERVICE.
SHEWETH :.
1.
Your Petitioners are Officers of Indian race domiciled
in India who are on the permanent establishment of the Civil
Service of the Crown Colony of Hong Kong.
2.
The emoluments and allowances received by your
Petitioners during active service are wholly in the Local
Currency of the Colony.
3.
Your Petitioners, who have for sometime past.con-
templated addressing you on the subject of grievances which are
accumulating as a result of changing conditions, now desire to
draw attention to those hardships only which affect them as a
result of the divergence in the exchange rate between the Local
Dollar and the Rupee in India.
4.
Consideration of one aspect of this exchange rate
question, namely that relating to the payment of pensions to
Indian Officers on retirement, has become urgent as a result of
their attention having been drawn to C.S.0. Circular No.57,
dated 10th August 1938, a copy of which is annexed hereto.
In the Circular referred to in the last paragraph
we are notified that the Government of Hong Kong has under
5.