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20/11/14.
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MEMORANDUM,
One of the two matters which I desire to mention concerns a pensionable personal allowance, the second instalment of which I consider becomes due to me on 1st January 1915, but in connection with which I have been informed that approval has been withheld. The reason given for withholding approval is, I humbly submit. palpably irrelevant, and apparently the result of a misunderstand- ing as to the nature of my case.
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The facts in brief are: (a) The Hongkong Government in 1911 agreed that the salary of the post which I hold should not be in- oreared, but that, as distinct from the post, I should be granted a maximum pensionable personal allowance of £120 per annum in two instalments, the second of which would be payable on the fulfil- ment of certain specified conditions, viz: that I still occupied the same position after a period of three years after receiving the first instalment of 270.
(b) They forwarded their proposals in despatch No 59 or 21/2/1911, and understood the Secretary of State's despatch No 91 of 6/4/1911 to approve the arrangement.
(c) On making formal application fer approval to pay the second instalment on the fulfilment of the conditions stipulated for, it was not given.
(d) The reason for refusal, as intimated to me briefly by the Colonial Office in letter No 15.391/1914 of 1/5/14, and in complete detail by the Governor's minute, dated Hongkong 19/2/14, is a mis- taken one, and could only apply to an application for an increase
It was decided in 1911 that it could to the salary of the post.
which alone not be applied to a pensionable personal allowance, forms my present case.
(e) The Governor in hie minute olearly states that his re- marks apply to "the DUTIES and EMOLUMENTS of the POST which he "holde", an admission which leaves no room for doubt as to the question with which he understood he was dealing, viz: the salary of the post. No such report was required, as my case does not con- cern the salary of the post.
(r) My case is quite another matter, and solely concerns a
and the fulfilment or otherwise of personal pensionable allowance, the condition stipulated for by the Hongkong Government and the Secretary of State in 1911 was the only circumstance which remained for the Governor to report on, since no other could have arisen, owing to the fact that I still continue to occupy the same post as I occupied in 1911.
I beg that the Governor's obvious and self-admitted error may be put right, so that payment of the second instalment may be au- thorised. I attach a supporting Memorandum containing certain par- ticulars and the testimony of Governor Sir Frederick Lugard and other officials concerned in considering and advising the Secre- tary of State on the oase in 1911.
Javid Wook.
Supaninberndant of
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Hongkong.
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