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in China have received, I shall be grateful for the necessary instructions. A copy of the Police Pensions Regulations would be of assistance to the Department.
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The Department would also find of value a list of officers who enjoyed pensionable status but occupied posts not normally included in the permanent pensionable establishment.
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It is understood that annual allowances were granted to lower paid employees on the temporary establishment on being invalided after a certain number of years' service or on retirement after reaching the age of fifty five. Is it the intention of the Colonial Office to make any such grants to lower paid employees who have say, more than twenty five years service or who are over the age of fifty?
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A number of employees on the permanent pensionable establishment accepted work with the Japanese after the surrender of Hongkong and it is proposed that in such cases full particulars should be sent to the Colonial Office so that a decision can be made in each case whether pension should be granted in full, reduced pension granted or a decision postponed until after hostilities.
11. Foreign Office telegram No.60 of the 15th January 1943 read in conjunction with Foreign Office telegram No.709 of 16th May 1942 states that all non pensionable officers of the Hongkong Government are eligible for relief, where the amount they have received is insufficient for livelihood or when the amount given is exhausted and no alternative employment can be found. Foreign Office telegram No. 709 was of course sent before it had been decided to pay all non-pensionable staff (with the exception of deily paid workers) up to 30th June 1942 plus one