CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926 — Page 290

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(Signed) Q. GRINDLE.

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an directed by Mr. Decfetary Amery to acknow-

ledge the receipt of your letter X.5836/4111/505 of the

10th of September, regarding the remuneration of the

Chief Justice, Hongkong, for noting as Appeal Judge ab

Shanghai on occasions when it is necessary to form a

full court, and to transmit to you to be laid before

Secretary Sir A. Chamberlain a copy of correspondence wi

the Treasury on the subject.

Mr. Amery regrets that it has been found

Department necessary, without any preliminary warning to this

to abolish on grounds of accounting procedure, which

were no doubt equally valid at the outset, an arrange-

ment which was made in order that the allowance „paid to

the Chief Justice of Hongkong should be free from in-

come-tax; and so equal in all respects to that drawn

by the Chief Justice, Shanghai, He presumes however

THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,

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FOREIGN OFFICE.

that