CO129-419 - Individuals - 1914 — Page 443

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have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter

No 34,669/1914 of the 16th of September, in which the inability

of the Secretary of State to accept my interpretation is again

stated to be the reason why he is unable to authorise the second

instalment of the £120 sterling pensionable personal allowance.

I regret that the fundamental basis of my claim continues

to be lost sight of, and that, in consequence of that all-import–

ant omission, the Secretary of State's reason for withholding his sanction appears to me (and I say so with all due respect)

to be at cross purposes with his final decision in my case in

1911.

The fundamental basis of my claim is (a) that my request

in no way concerns the duties or salary of the post of "Super- intendent of Accounts, Correspondence and Stores", or of any other post or individual in the service, and (b) that as in 1911 I was, in the absence of promotion, left in, and still continue to hold, the post of "Superintendent of Accounts, Correspondence and Stores", no new circumstances (other than those proposed by the Hongkong Government and approved and stipulated by the Secretary of State) could have been expected to exist at the present date, other than those which obtained in 1911 and on which my case was then decided.

The Hongkong Government in that year proposed, and the Secretary of State agreed, to separate the question of the salary of the post from that of my own personal claims.

My application then was for an increase to the pay of the post, and was refused, because the salary of the post was con- sidered to be "sufficiently high". The Hongkong Government, on their own initiative, took up consideration of my strictly per-

(106,283). WL.17,476-33. 20,000. 8/11. A.&E.W.