CO129-504-8 Chief Justice of Hong Kong- remuneration for acting as Appeal Judge at Shanghai 5-3-1927 - 7-12-1927 — Page 34

A CONFIDENTIAL.

Fo. 20770/26

Sir,

Copy (w /enell. in orig) to FO.(2)

Aund bouf- 1/- 12 MAY

1927

RECEIVED

11 APR 1927

OOL. OFFICE

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

HONGKONG, 5th March, 1927.

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your confidential despatch of 13th December, 1926 on the

subject of the remuneration of the Chief Justice of Hong Kong

for acting as an Appeal Judge at Shanghai.

2.

Sir H. Gollan has read the correspondence

enclosed in the despatch and is prepared to accede to the

view expressed in paragraph 3 of the letter from the Foreign

Office of 6th November to the extent that he refuses to

impose a new financial burden on his Shanghai colleague.

He is not however prepared to admit the relevance of the

argument which it is sought to base on the fact that Sir

Skinner Turner pays British Income Tax on his salary while

his own salary as Chief Justice of Hong Kong is exempt from

that Tax.

3.

I enclose formal receipts from Sir H. Gollan

for the remuneration received by him in respect of his

Appeal service from 1925 to the end of the first half of

1927. In view however of the fact that, in 1924 the Treasury

approved the continuance of the arrangements for exempting

payment from tax pending a vacancy in the Judgeship at

Shangilai

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,

&C.,

&c.,

&c.