CO129-240 - Public Offices & Others - 1888 — Page 491

I most respectfully

4.

recessary to qualify the for maximum Colonial pension (including my Naval pension).

Submit that as

ury

Continuous

my

my

service commenced on the

jet March 1861 and

my

predecessor was, by the ther rule, only counting half pension time, I may be permitted to reckon the other half time towards my pension.

From Lood

Knutsford's despatch of

gad

the

2nd inst. to the Governor of

Hong Kong I find myself one year shout of the time recessery

Although I have longer service in Honglong than any other offices (pensioned or otherwise) Ishould most certainly have remained another year

in the Colony

had Inot been assured before

leaving that I had

completed

27 years continuous service,

and under these circumstances

I must again ask permission to