CO129-504-8 Chief Justice of Hong Kong- remuneration for acting as Appeal Judge at Shanghai 5-3-1927 - 7-12-1927 — Page 30

In any further communication on this subject, please quote

No,

RECLI

X 4182/3219/505.

30JUN 1927 OOL. OFFICE

1

and address-

not to any person by name,

but to-

**

The Under-Secretary of State,"

Foreign Office,

London, S.W.1.

Sir,

FOREIGN OFFICE.

5

30

S.W.1.

29th June, 1927.

عود

EQ

34219/24

$3000.

enales in above

Copy

to die Ho Gollan (6)

B. pompo

Guineas 50.

SEP

I am directed by Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain

to refer to the letter from this department of the 18th July

1924 (F 2120/428/10), relative to the allowance of three

thousand dollars a year payable to the Chief Justice of

Hongkong for acting as a member of the Appeal Court at

Shanghai, and to request you to inform Mr. Secretary Amery

that Sir kinner Turner, His Majesty's Judge at Shanghai, will

retire as from the 16th instant. In accordance with the

stipulation made in the Treasury letter of the 28th June 1924 (E/9837) the payment of this allowance should therefore

be discontinued as from that date.

2.

It is considered, however, that some remuneration

I should be paid to the Chief Justice of Hongkong and to His

Majesty's Judge at Shanghai when they act as members of

Appeal Courts away from their normal place of residence and

representations have been made to the Lords Commissioners of

His Majesty's Treasury accordingly. Although Their

Lordships are unable to sanction the continuance of the

existing allowance subsequent to the 16th instant They are

prepared to authorize the payment from Imperial Funds to the

Chief Justice of Hongkong of a fee of fifty guineas on each

occasion in future on which he visits Shanghai as a member

of the Full Court on the understanding that the Government of

Hongkong will pay a similar fee to His Majesty's Judge at

Shanghai, when he visits Hongkong in the corresponding

,

The Under-Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

capacity/

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