CO129-240 - Public Offices & Others - 1888 — Page 364

live appears to me

to point

to the Honghong Pensino

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allimite, as

the

Local Law,

which

is to regulate the

retering Allowance of

and I can discover

per own

359

in force, and while I admit

that

leo

officer

Cau

clains

An absolute right to an

Allowance, it

would be

-high-handed justice if Ruch

officer,

nothing in

that ellinte

ene from

which precludes

its Anefits, It Pays, Mry Clearly that in

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In the absence of amp local law, Each application

a the

for a pension or retiring

Allowance,

Coo

it presents

itself must be specially Considered and treated, on

it's own.

merits Ete: ." is this

case, the local law is still

G

Course

was pursued

without

Ample

and good

reasms.

In 1863 I was appointed

Penior Medical Officer of the

Naval Sopital at Stongthong which position I continued to hold tile 1873,

Early

in 1888, the Gormar

of

Songhong, Isis Execellency

Sir Richard

Graves ellacdonald

invited ene

to

accept

the

office of

Health

officer of

the Port of Hangtong,