CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12] — Page 138

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Chief Justice' Chambers, Supreme Court, Hongkong.

10th August, 1925,

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I have the honour to address Your Excellency

on the subject of the pension which will accrue to me on my retirement from the service next year after a period of over 26 years service.

2.

Prior to my appointment to Hongkong I served

as Attorney General and King's Advocate, respectively, of the Bahamas and Cyprus for two respective periods of four and a half years (approximately). According to the law of the Bahamaɛ the Attorney Generalship was a pensionable office but there we a general provision of the pension law, the effect of which debarred any public officer from drawing the pension he would otherwise have been entitled to unless he had served ten years under the Bahamas Government, not- withstanding the fact that he may after transfer from the Bahamas, have served more than that period, or an indefinite period, in the service of the Crow elsewhere.

3.

My position in this respect is entirely analogous to that of Sir Anton Bertran, Chief Justice of Ceylon, who succeeded me as tomey General of the Bahamas where he served for a little over four years. By accepting promotion to Cyprus we sach lost the rights which had accrued to us by our pensionable service in the office of

Attorney General of the Bahamas,

4.

Last year this matter ma brought to the

notice of the Governor of Ceylon by Sir Anton Bertram in connection with an amendment of the Pension Minute in Ceylon which had been sanctioned by the Secretary of State.

His Excellency

Sir Edward Stubbs, K.C.M.G.,

Governor, &c.,

&c.

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