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No 443.
0.22022
29 NOV 1926
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG,
26th October, 1926.
511
G 11014/25
Sir,
With reference to paragraph 4 of your despatchi
No.105 of 13th April, 1926, I have the honour to inform you that owing to conditions previously prevailing the Treasurer has only recently found it possible to make a beginning on the work of filling in Mr. Young's schedules. He now reports that owing, inter alia, to the practice (since remedied) of recording sterling contributions in dollar currency only, the work involved in tracing increases and decreases calls for
special accuracy. He has therefore not felt justified in
entrusting the task to any but a small staff of selected
Treasury officers. The number of schedules involved
excluding bachelors' (whose registered pension can clearly
not be calculated) exceeds 2,000, and he estimates that this
staff working, as they must do, after office hours will take
fully six months to complete the work. On completion, a
further period must clearly elapse before Mr. Young's final
calculations become available.
2.
In these circumstances I have considered the
possibility of expediting matters, and two alternative
methods of doing so present themselves, namely to dilute the staff employed or to entrust the entire work of
calculation
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,
&c.
&c.,
&c.,
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