CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911 — Page 70

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Pensions 1371.

ALL COMMUNICATIONS

TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE

CROWN AGENTS FOR THE COLONIES,

THE ABOVE REFERENCE AND THE

DATE OF THIS LETTER BEING QUOTED.

TELEGRAMS, "CROWN, LONDON,"

TELEPHONE 1032 VICTORIA.

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27153.

Aces Reat18 AUG 11

WHITEHALL CARDENS,

LONDON, S. W.

68

HONG KONG

17th. August, 1911.

Sir,

With referenceto your letter of the 22nd.

July No. 23213/11 authorising the issue of an alimentary

allowance to Mr. J. I. Plummer, late Chief Assistant

at the Hong Kong Observatory, I have the honour to report

for the information of the Secretary of State that we

have received a telegram from the Government of Hong

Kong informing us that Mr. Plummer has been granted a

pension of $1080 per annum as from the 10th. May 1911.

2. The pension is payable in England at 3s.8d.

to the dollar and the sterling rate is consequently

exactly the same as that of the alimentary allowance

which the Secretary of State authorised us to pay to

Mr. Plummer.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

The Under Secretary of State,

&c. &C. 8C.,

Colonial Office.

Your obedient Servant,

Mechees

for Crown Agents.