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after deducting half the period of his half-pay leave and adding the proportionate part of five years allowed under

the rule, is five years, nine months, and twenty-six days. The salary draw as Attorney General was at the rate of £1,500, and the pension is accordingly £125, being five- sixtieths of £1,500.

Sir William Rees-Davies's service as Chief Justice dates from the 1st May, 1912, and he proposes to leave the Colony early in May, 1924, it being inexpedient, on the ground of health, that he should remain in Hongkong for another sumner. The grant of the vacation leave which

will then be due will bring the date of retirement to the

1st September, 1924, by which date the period of service as

Chief Justice, after deducting half of the half-pay leave,

will be eleven years, nine monthɛ, and nine days, which

gives a pension of eleven-thirtieths of £2,400, or £880.

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It will be seen from the foregoing figures

that nine months and twenty-six days service as Attorney General and nine months and nine days service as Chief Justice are not counted for purposes of pension, as the period in each case falls short of a complete year, and I recommend that in the circumstances the service as Chief Justice should be reckoned at a total of twelve years, which adds another 280, being one-thirtieth of £2,400, to

the pension.

I would have recommended the grant of sufficient commuted leave to make up the complete year, were it not for the fact that, owing to prolonged ill-

health, Sir William Rees-Davies has overdraw by rather

more than two months the total half-pay leave allowed by

the regulations. But in any event, having regard to the

statement in the letter enclosed in this despatch that no

pension is payable in respect of four and a half years'

service in the Bahamas, I am sure that this Colony would

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