CO129-477 - Public Offices - 1922 — Page 398

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TREASURY CHAMBERS,

WHITEHALL.

21st December, 1922,

397

Dear Flond,

I do not expect that this is your pigeon but

please pass it on.

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We have a letter from the Foreign Office stating that they have consulted the Colonial office on an arrangement whereby the Chief Justice of Hongkong should proceed to Shanghai twice a year to act as member of the Court of Appeal for China, remuneration which they propose is a yearly non- pensionable allowance of £250 together with actual travelling expenses and subsistence allowance of 15 dollars a day. This is based upon an assumption of

two anmal Sessions each of 24 working days,

Can you please tell me how the Colonial office It has occurred to me that as the regard the matter. Foreign office sent the Judge of the Supreme Court

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at Shanghai to Hongkong twice a year as a Judge of the Appeal Court there and as the arrangement now proposed is the converse of that arrangement it should be

J.E.. Flond Esq.,

Colonial office.

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