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FOREIGN OFFICE. S.7.1.

6th November,1926.

In reply to Sir G. Grindle's letter of the 27th Yeas

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18640/26) regarding the remuneration of the Chief

Justice of Hongkong for acting as Appeal Judge at shanghai,

I am directed by Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain to request

you to inform Mr. Secretary Amery that he fears that no

useful purpose would be served by re-opening the subject

with the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury.

Treasury decision is based on an objection raised by the

Comptroller and Auditor-General to the present method of

recording in the accounts the financial transactions now in

question, and it would appear that the Treasury have taken the

only course legitimately open to them.

2. I am to observe that the effect of the alternative

referred to in the second paragraph of the letter from this

department of September 10th last would be to render Sir

Skinner Turner liable for increased super-tax, Moreover, the

fact that the Chief Justice of Hongkong receives his salary

free of British income tax, whereas tax is levied in the

case of Sir Skinner Turner, already destroys the equality

which the Gover or of Hongkong was anxious to secure.

fore to ask that the position may

3.

I am,

be explained to Sir H. Gollan, and to express the hope that

he will not insist on an arrangement that will place on

Sir Skinner Turner a burden from which he has hitherto been

exempt, in order to secure the semblance of a uniformity

which,/

Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.