CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4] — Page 543

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Favorable than any scheme likel, tbe

§ Zer it is more

favourable than pensioning

Leen.

diriked for mixed civil & Judicial Service Judzes scale for

I do not propose to touch on here

that print

But the paragraphs in the helme minute relation to the Judges Pensions strike me as requiring amendment- inter other particular

(1) Rules 2 (2) 8 2 (3) an a little obscure, but I read 2 (3) 44 (1) together as meaning that if any

Officer in promoted to be a judge he Must serve 7 year before he gets any real benefit

as regarde positive and salary, though of course lenght ofterice tells for the ordinary rates.

to 18

This was the sale on Ceylon up

; but we did away with it- there far it is obviously incquitable,

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Ithink we should not have introduced

can

Judzéteria,

andenanz scale for ordinanz

Prince Even

we added full Spearichinat

Comes to the Catter

it in Stacking - Igather it he not been done deliberately; & think the Tygan should be reduced to the ordinary 3

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I think that Judze should Serve till 55 like other seople

Dug. 19/6

of Course reserving clain ofthe existin ime Indye, &indeed

Aussell

(2) A judge, who has completed (yan see Rules of the sole din 1907-

Service as such, or even a

Kertas

Civil Servant, Jo

as soon as he has become a judg Rifela doby note this. con clain to relive without

regard to age or health.

Thinkta

feature in the strait's Rules which originated under Indian practice: it is very uncommon, if not unteneur-chewhere in the Colonies,

no medical certificate ecesary in his cause.

and I believe it was only Owing

the accident that the Straits miles were

Lent to Hong Kong

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a model than

to any deliberate decision, that the plan has now crept into Houghery_

If

mocha paid for their pension by deductions from their salary (as in

in Media)

there is something to be said for making a fixed he of years service the sole claim to passion - Bur Colonial judges appointed at such very

various ages, (there was one at the Gold Coast appointed under 25, who by the time he was about-35- fot a pension

masone

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of neard half-pay for life), that I doubt- if those in any sufficient for treating Judges different to ordino Civil servants in this respect - at all event; Jumilit not five a right to penzion for mich avery Shat service as y year where there is no illhealth: and I would suggest that in the 7th clance after the words "Judge of the Supoling Court "there thudd be intertid the "who has completed 15 years fenice in that capacity in this Colony or 25 years Service in all of which seven have been in that capacity in this Colony) - Otherwill you might have in man, who was lucky mays. "to be made

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