CO129-404 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [10-12] — Page 161

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG. 20th. November, 1913.

34489 Referring to your Despatch No. 320 of 18th.--

October, 1913, I have the honour to inform you that Mr. W. Hunt was

invalided from the Police Force on the certificate of a Medical

Board of which a copy is enclosed and not on account of the slight injuries which he sustained through falling down stairs at an incipient fire. No compensation can therefore be paid to him. He had only been in the Force for 4 months.

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As regards paragraph 2 of your Despatch, under the provisions of Section 16 of Ordinance No. 11 of 1900 a European Constable is after 5 years' service entitled to a free passage from the Colony to such port in his native country as the Governor may direct. It was recently represented by the Captain Superintendent of Police that travelling expenses to their native places from London, the port of arrival of the P. and 0. Boats by which the Police travel, constituted a heavy drain upon the resources of Scotsmen and Irishmen and Sir Henry May therefore decided that Police Officers domiciled in Scotland should, when proceeding on or returning from leave of absence, be furnished with 3rd. class rail- -way tickets to or from Glasgow or Minburgh and those domiciled in Ireland with 3rd. class rail and 2nd. saloon tickets to or from Dublin, Belfast or Waterford as they might select. Having regard to

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,

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