CO129-266 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [1-3] — Page 108

intended

the proposed rates of salary, for the Indian Police you that such approval should extend to the recommendations made

by the Retrenchment Committee in regard to bonuses and ~ pension .

I have also to invite Tour Lordship's attention to the fact that the Retrenchment Committee whilst fixing a

age for

minimum

Indian

Policemen to retire on pension

omitted

* See paragraphs 201 and 206 of their

Report.

omitted to make any

any recom. mendation in the cases

of

105

Europeans and Chinese, although the Captain Superintendent of Police in paragraph 15 of his letter to the Committee of the 4th May, 1894, suggested that 45 years should be the pensionable. age for the whole Force.

In paragraph 16 of the

same letter it was also recom. mended that bonuses to ~

Europeans enlisted in the

Colony should be abolished,

but