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nationality to whom a pension has been granted and who is desirous of proceeding to England at an early date for the purpose of there permanently residing, but is applicable only to those officers who have taken up their residence in an Asiatic country after retirement.
10. Your petitioner also respectfully submits that inasmuch as many officers in the service of the HongKong Government, and are entitled to be paid pensions in sterling, upon retirement, wheresoever they may choose to reside, it would be unreasonable and illogical to insist upon other officers domiciled in Great Britain being paid pensions, upon retirement, at the market rate of exchange while elsewhere than in England, although such officers had been in receipt of salaries in dollars at a fixed rate of exchange greater than the market rate. Your petitioner is unable to believe that it can be the intention of the Government to compel, or to induce, those officers who joined the service many years ago and were in receipt of dollar salaries to leave the Colony immediately after retirement, while encouraging those officers who have more recently joined the service, or who are in receipt of sterling salaries, to reside wherever they please after retirement in years to come.
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Your petitioner further respectfully submits that, upon the retirement of a Government servant who has been sent from England to the Colony of HongKong, and to whom a pension has been granted in the Colony after a long period of service, such person is justified in expecting that his passage back to England will be paid by the Goverment of the Colony, and that it shall not be rendered difficult or impossible for him to proceed to England by reason of the fact that his passage money must be found by himself.
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Your petitioner therefore humbly
praya that your Lordship will be
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