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urgently needing help, and compassionate

ascending being voted to them

grants accordingly

This has occurred chiefly

& Nation

B

Ther

Eurasian class in, but not exclusively. That class are about

A

to receive 20% increase to their pay, and it would not perhaps be hard to make the condition in their case that they shall contribute 4% to their fund that they will not

of Sam suffer the slight diminutions which

W.S.O. And seeing

we are

in the case of

proposing Europeans officers by

Non

perhaps

f

Ner

reduction in the rate of Exchange

tables in use

in Most Colonies

should not be applicable to

Hongkong.

I have drafted

for consideration in par.

434

accordingly.

desire on the salaries question

(m 1598)

J.M.912 June 90

I agree 857 12.6.20

If the We

may perhaps

now in their

service

of country

that European officers

who decline voluntarily to join the Fund for the have already sufficiently

income)

may be

themselves. I know that some of them have insured and have considerable sums for the

purpose by means

of Family Remittances

Of course if the Fund is started, it must be made compulsory

to all

future entries into the service whether

of Europeans

or

Eurasians, as

has been done in other Colonies where it Exists, and in that case the contributors will

more

be of

a mixed class of lives than those exist at the Straits, together

I know Mauritius of therefore why the actuarial

calculation

reason

exists