CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923 — Page 559

553 EME

DRAFT.

of the Hong Kong mortality experience,

and the possible recalculation in this

country of the revised pensions are known.

The matter of your fees and expenses for

preparing the report might then be

considered in conjunction with those for

such other work as you may then

undertake on behalf of the Hong Kong

Government.

:

and partly in order that you might

be acquainted with the position of

the similar questions in the Malay

Peninsula, the correspondence

regarding which has been closely

connected with the correspondence

with Hong Kong-

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In the circumstances, while

appreciating the value of your report

and recognising the weight which

should properly be attached to

your opinions on all actuarial

matters, Mr. Thomas feels that it

is difficult for him to ask the

Hong Kong Government to pay the sum

of £56.5.0 for the production of a

report rendered in such circumstances.

In view of the explanations

contained in this letter, you may be

willing to agree that this matter

should be allowed to stand over until

the final decisions of the Hong Kong

Government as to the adoption of the

8% Pension Tables, the investigation

Mr.

Mr.

Mr.

MINUTE.

Sir C. Davis.

Sir G. Grindle.

Sir H. Read.

Sir J. Masterton. Smith,

Mr. Ormaby-Gore.

Duke of Devonshire.

of

I am, etc.,

(Signed) G. GRINDLE