CO129-509-4 Hong Kong Government officers- conditions of service and pensions 20-1-1928 - 17-9-1928 — Page 10

of service;

10

h. p.

(2) Tropical Africa, where the rate

equivalent to

for European Officers is/1_th;

40

(3) The intermediate class, where the

pension rate is_1_th but an addition of

60

5 ths is allowed on account of climate. 60

5 the

Although I shall of course be prepared to

consider any evidence which you may desire

to bring forward on this point, I must say

that as at present advised I see no

sufficient reason to suppose that Hong

Kong is not correctly included in the

last-mentioned class; and I should be

reluctant if it can be avoided, to place

it in a class by itself. It is possible,

of course, that if the question were being

considered de novo a somewhat different

system pension/might be adopted in respect of

this class of Colonies generally, though

I think that the present arrangements on

the whole work satisfactorily. In this

connection I may observe that an

Interdepartmental Committee which sat in

1908

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