from the recommendation made by the recent Hong Kong
Salaries Commission that the Hong Kong Government should have the right, if necessary, to require an
officer to retire at the age of 45 and that the
officer should have the reciprocal right to
retire at that age if he so wished.
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recommendation is still under consideration and no
decision about it has yet been taken.
A further
point in his letter which appears to be quite
at variance with the facts is the statement that
his
under the Salaries Commission Report police
service in Hong Kong prior to 1.1.47 is not
to be recognised. On both of these points the
observations of the Governor of Hong Kong are
being sought and I will write to you again when
they are received.
Yours sincerely,