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COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,

Hongkong, 25th May, 1920.

12. For the purposes of these rules:—

"Salary" means the salary of an officer's permanent appointment cou

verted into dollars at exchange 2/-.

"Tenement" means a separate house or a self-contained flat of two or more rooms, but it does not include acconimodation in a hotel or boarding-house or a single room or two rooms occupied by an officer singly.

13. These rules take effect from the 1st January, 1921, from which date the Rules for Rent Allowances dated the 1st January, 1917, and subsequent amendments thereof are cancelled.

By Command,

To

THE HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS.

A. G. M. FLETCHER,

Colonial Secretary,

Circular No 28.

PASSAGES.

After a period of four and a half years' resident service an offler of the class which is ordinarily domiciled in the United Kingdom who proceeds on furlough will be granted return passages to port of destination and back for himself, his wife, his sons under the age of sixteen years, and his unmarried daughters,

2. An officer who retires rm the service on persion will similarly be granted single passages to port of destination: provided that he sails within a period of six months from the date of retirement.

3. These passages wil be first class passages by mail steamer in the case of officers whose salary exceeds £800 per annum and first class passages by inter- mediate steamer or second class passages by mail steuner in the case of officers whose salary does not exceed £800 per annum: provided that if appropriate passages are not available this rule may be varied in the discretion of the Governor.

If an offer is permitted to go on long leave or to retire on pension before he has completed our and a half years resident service since his last return from furlough, the Government will contribute towards the cost of his passages a sum which bears a like proportion to the total eest of such passages as the period of his resident service bears fo fur and a half years: provided that this rule may be relaxed in the case of an officer who is required to take leave or to retire on pension ou the ground of ill health.

3. If an o'licer who has completed four and a half years' resident service is detained in the Colony owing to the exigencies of the Service passages will be pro- vided separately for his wife and children if he so desires

6. If an officer's wife and children procee! home under melical certificate unaccompanied by such leer and before he has completed four and a half years' resident service, half the cost of their return passages will be provided by the Government, subject to a guarantee for the repayment of the cost in the event of the officer leaving the service before he has completed four and a half years' resident service.

7. If an officer to whom passages have been granted leaves the Service within a period of two years from the date of his return to the Colony he will, unless he is retired under a medical certificate, le required to refund to the Government half the sum expended by it upon his return passages.

addition to 8. Six mouths' notice of intention to apply for passages should be given in writing para:

to the Colonial Secretary and all passages will be booked by the Harbour Master. They will be by the shortest route to destination and they will be taken in such steamers as the Governor may direct.

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9. If an officer wishes to make privale arrangen.ents for his passages, such officer will, upon production of his passage tickets, receive a sum equivalent to the actual cost to the Government of such Government passages as he may be entitled to.

10. These rules take effect from 1st January, 1920. Half the cost of Govern- ment return passages will be granted to officers who were on leave on that date and to officers' wives and children who had left the Colony and had not returned by that date.

11. It must be clearly understood that the concession granted under this circular is limited to a period of five years and that thereafter it may be modified or can- celled.