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Bill for 1907, in which the Widows and Orphans' Pension

Fund was included as Revenue, came before the Legislative

Council the Un-official Members, as has been explained in

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3970 Sir Matthew Nathan's Despatches No. 243 of the 6th. of

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Enclosure 1.

October, 1905, and No. 280 of the 15th. of November last,

objected to the inclusion of the fund. A reference to the

reports of the meetings of the Council forwarded with the

first of those Despatches will place Your Lordship in

possession of the remarks made on the subject by Messrs.

R. Shewan and G. Stewart who had been deputed by the Un-

-official Members of Council to review and criticise the

Budget for the current year.

4.

Prior to the meeting of the

Legislative Council referred to, Sir Matthew Nathan had

received representations against the transfer from con-

-tributors to the fund; and he, therefore, decided not

to introduce the Bill to amend the Widows and Orphans'

Pension Fund Ordinance until these representations had

been put into definite shape by a small Committee of

Civil Servants constituted for the purpose.

I now enclose copy of the report

of the Committee. The figures and definite expression of

opinion