CO129-498-22 Leave and passage rules- petition of Hong Kong government service senior officers for a relaxation... 29-6-1926 - 16-10-1926 — Page 13

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Hong Kong, 29th June, 1926.

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Your Excellency,

We, the undersigned European officers of the Civil Service have the honour to submit the following with a view to securing a relaxation of the existing Leave and Passage rules in the interests of officers with considerable service who have wives and children.

The existing Leave rules require an officer to serve 44 years before becoming eligible for Home leave. On special grounds, however, leave may be taken earlier and in the past, senior officers have frequently been allowed to take leave earlier. Nor do we doubt that Your Excellency would regard as special grounds the case of an officer isolated from his family.

We have therefore no ground for complaint as to the practice though we venture to suggest that the rules in force in Singapore and the Federated Malay States could conveniently be applied to this Colony.

Those rules permit an officer of 15 years' standing to take leave without special grounds after each period of 3 years' service.

The possibility, however, of an officer's actually taking leave depends not only on his application being granted but on his capacity to secure the funds to buy a ticket. And the Leave rules accordingly must be read in conjunction with the Passage rules. These rules allow an officer a free return passage after 4 years' service but require him to contribute, should he wish to go earlier, the proportion of the cost of his passage which the period by

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His Excellency

Sir Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G.,

Governor,