Effie, whose employes live in more healthy parts of China, has not thought it right to require continuous residence. for more than five years.
We humbly regnist that the same term
be
may
allotted to us; and that, considering
our
great distance from home, the
expense and duration of the
voyage,
and the length of time necessary effects of this
for recovery from
the
baneful climate, the period during
be drawn
which half salary may whilst on leave, should be one
fifth, mishad of one sixth of our
residence services.
We urge because, although by the Regulations we are entitled each year to a short vacation, our salaries are so inadequate to the expenses of the place, and travelling is so costly, that many of us are virtually prechided from availing ourselves
of privilege.
this the more. - urge this the
the
"The alteration suggested would however be almost nurgatory, unless we could obtain in addition the
indulgence
papage allowance,
mistead of one third,
returning
-going and an indulgence
on such leave_an
which the Foreign Office does not hesitate
to
to grant to Consular Officers .-
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With regard to Mehrément - He do not complain of the seal on which the Pensions have been fixed; but we
do think that cause d. of our Pension Minute has not been framed with that amount of consideration which the peculiar ovrcumstances of Hongkong. would seem to monit. This blause states that "No pension shall be granted to any public servant who shall be under fifty-five years of age, melep upon certificate that he is incapable, from infirmity of mind body, to discharge the duties of his situation." This is virtually arying that no Officer shall have a pension, unless his constitution is broken-up: because in such a chmate as this, no person having paped the prime of his life here, could hope to contenine in Hongkong and attain the of fifty- five. Is it fair then that
age
we should be condemned either to pass the autumn our lives in.
of
motead
sickness
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