CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3] — Page 499

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Public Works Department,

Hongkong, 13th. February, 1914.

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I have the honour to refer to 0.8.0. 788/1911 and

to His Excellency Sir F. D. Lugard's despatch therein, No. 59 of

2 the 21st.. of February, 1911, to the Secretary of State, and the recommendation therein, that, I should be granted a "personal pensionable allowance", and that I should be granted such allow-

-ance at the rate of £70 per annum as from 1st. of January, 1912. "Should Mr. Wood, then, after a further period of three years' "service, still find himself in the same position, he could apply "for an increment of another £50 to his personal allowance bring- *ing his pensionable salary up to a maximum of £720 per annum. The recommendation having been approved of by the Right Honourable the Secretary of State, in his despatch No. 91 of 6th. April, 1911, and, as no promotion has come to me in the interim, I "am still in the same position" therefore, as therein referred to, and I beg that His Excellency the Governor may be pleased to recommend that the pensionable personal allowance may be raised to the stipulated maximum of £120 a year, in the Estimates for 1915.

I have etc.,

(Sd.) David Wood,

Superintendent of Accounts, Corres-

-pondence & Stores,

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The Honourable

Mr. W. Chatham, C.M.G.,

Director of Public Works.