CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920 — Page 605

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In any further correspondence on Lot of thin Letter, its number

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and date should be quoted.—

fuperior-General,

Irish Constabulary Ofis,

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ROYAL IRISH CONSTABULARY OFFICE,

C.O

DUBLIN CASTLE,

sir,

47288

RECO

REG 24 SEP 201

22nd Sept. 1920.

In reply to your letters of 8th July and

For

18th Sept. No 31903/20, I am directed by

the Inspector General to inform you that under

a Pension order recently made by the Lord Lieutenant and approved by the Treasury, Mr. Howe has been granted his full pension of two-thirds of his pay without counting the period during which he served in Hong Kong. In these circumstances there is now no necessity for the Hong Kong Government to grant Mr. Howe any pension from the funds of the Colony.

I am,

sir,

he Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office,

London S.N. 1.

Your obedient Servant,

HM Metcalfe

Principal Staff Officer.

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