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33890/38 + requests
daberite obsons. on enclosure to (24.) on petitioners be informed that their concession
been agreed 6.
معد
The Governor states that the primary object
Avision of the rescission of the Legislative
that Council's resolution of 1902 (the effect of rescission being that pensions to be paid in England from the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Fund after
June the 1st 1938 should not be paid at the rate of 3/- to the dollar, but at the current rate of
Exchange wa
was to prevent the further extension of the
privilege conferred by the 1902 resolution to officers locally engaged on dollar salaries whose widows might choose to live elsewhere than in Hong
Kong.
This being so the Hong Kong Government is prepared to agree to the extension to officers whose dollar salaries were subject to Exchange compensation
of the same concession as has already been approved
in the case of officers drawing pensions at
conventional rates of exchange.
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Hamp
Reply as in drafts herewith.
To his g 3. 20 H. Kang. 95
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