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invariably applied when they receive their emoluments in a
currency other than that quoted in the conditions of their
appointment. For European Officers these exchange adjustment
questions do not arise during periods of leave or on retirement
on pension, but they are considered whenever payments are made
to them in the Local Currency of Hong Kong or when assistance
is given for purchasing remittances to dependents.
15. Your Petitioners will submit that the application
of a similar principle should logically be applied to them,
and that during such periods, whether on temporary leave or
pension, as they are dependent on a currency other than that
quoted in the terms of their appointment, exchange compensation
should, as a matter of course, be taken into account.
16. Your Petitioners therefore humbly beg to submit
that consideration of the proposed revision of the practice
to grant a minimum rate of exchange to Indian Officers on
pension, should be postponed until they have had an opportunity
of laying before you certain already existing grievances of a
general nature the investigation of which, Your Petitioners
feel confident, will confirm their contention that any reduction
or withdrawal of such small privileges as they now enjoy as
British subjects and foreigners in this Colony would not only
be inopportune, but that any revision should be in the direction
of an improvement and general amelioration in the conditions
relating to their service.
AND Your Petitioners will ever pray etc.
Dated at Hong Kong this econd day of
Pep tanker
1938.
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