Mr. Clutterbuck
BIT. Huuli 20
Mr.
Br. Becket 20
Mr. E L Harding.
sascumbe
Sir C. Strachey.
Sir J. Shuckburgh.
Sir G. Grindle.
Sir C. Davis.
Sir S. Wilson.
Mr. Ormsby-Gore.
Earl of Clarendon.
Mr. Amery.
comm
DRAFT.
20/7
f.
SIR BASIL PETO, Bt., M.P.
30190/27 HK
CR3
Downing Street,
22 July, 1927
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For Mr. Edgcumbe's signature.
was
I am/desired by Mr. Amery, to- immediate lepre this departure for 5. Apuca today, to
write to you to say that he has now looked into the
House of Commons,S.W.1.
case of Mr. R.A.Savage, late of Hong
Kong, about whom you wrote to him on
the 5th of July. No letter has been
received from Hr. Savage under date
th
of 30th of June, but it appears that
the Department had some correspondence
with him a few years ago in which the
position as regards his pension was
fully explained to him.
It is true that when Mr.Savage
was transferred from the Home Service
to Hong Kong it was arranged that there
should be no break in his service, which
should be regarded as continuous for
pension purposes. Mr. Savage at first
thought that he would be retired from
the
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the Home Service on transfer to Hong Kong
and the following explanation was given to
him in a letter from the Colonial Office
dated the 1st January 1902.
"Mr. Chamberlain regrets that he is
"unable to concur in your view of your
"position in regard to the Home Postal
"Service, inasmuch as you are not now
"being superannuated from that service,
"nor retired with a pension, but trans-
"ferred to the service of the Government
"of Hong Kong, while retaining your claim
"to pension in respect to your Home
"service, provided that you ultimately
"retire from the Hong Kong service under
"circumstances which would entitle you to
"a pension if you had continued in the
"Home Service".
This does not mean, as Mr. Savage
has since claimed, that on retirement from
Hong Kong he would receive one pension in
respect of his whole service, calculated
on his retiring salary, but that on his
retirement from Hong Kong in circumstances
entitling him to pension, he would receive
In respect of her Colonial savice a pension from the Colony, as well as a
pension from Imperial funds in respect of
There been a break baliem
his Home service. Had hiasavice-wrot
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the Kamination this savice under the Home Govt
been secondes masaspire.,
auch the commencement this service under the 1tk Ent
tiba/, he would not have
wat fout
been eligible on retirement from
Hong Kong for a pension from Imperial
funds in respect of his Home service,
and the effect of his service being
continuous was to make him eligible
for pensions from a Hong Kong
respectively.
and the Home Governments pootúaf
for each
me portion of his
is unfortunate that Mr.
service,
Las since
It
Savage assigned
a different interpretation to the
correspondence, but the practice
followed in his case is in accordance
with that generally adopted in all
similar cases in conformity with
provisions of the Imperial and
Colonial Laws. Mr. Savage has thus
no basis for his complaint that he
has been unfairly treated, and Mr.
Amery is afraid that he can gain
nothing by pressing his claim.
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