CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12] — Page 378

b

BANG

ASEA

COPY.

Jonclosure 3.

363 0

807

The Captain Superintendent's

Office. Rece

Reat 8 JAN 12

Police Department,

Hongkong, 21st. November, 1911.

Sir,

I have the honour to request that the

question of half-pay leave as decided in No. 5981/1911 may be referred to the Secretary of State, not by way of appeal at all,

but for the reasons I now give.

I do not claim any half-pay leave, as a right, but as a privilege for which I consider I am eligible.

I have about ten months half-pay to my

credit in respect of the whole of my resident service in the Straits Settlements, Federated Malay States and Hongkong.

When I went to England on leave in 1903 I had only been in Hongkong for fifteen months, and in consequence was only granted a short period of half-pay leave, which was however extended by the Secretary of State, so that I had no reason for

raising the question.

I consider my position with regard to half-

-pay leave differs in no way from that of a Cadet.

I have pointed out in my application to be allowed to retire some disadvantages in the way of salary that

my transfer to Hongkong entailed.

I ask therefore this favour: that I may be

granted two months half-pay leave at the expiration of my vacation leave, so that I may, for that period, receive more than

a pension will amounts to

There is provision in the Estimates for

full pay up to March, 1912.

I have etc.,

(sd.) F. W. Lyons,

Captain Superintendent of Police.

The Honourable

The Colonial secretary.