CO129-509-4 Hong Kong Government officers- conditions of service and pensions 20-1-1928 - 17-9-1928 — Page 11

1908 recommended the replacement of this

system by one under which pensions would

be calculated at the rate of 1 th

50

(without climate addition), which enables

the maximum to be reached in 33 years'

1 3

service instead of 35. This system has,

however, been adopted by one Colony only

Bermuda

th

-

and I am not inclined to favour

any general change at the present time.

Incidentally, if any alteration of the septem

67. As you recognise, the present

discontent in Hong Kong is due in a large

measure to the disparity in salaries

between that Colony and other Eastern

Colonies where the general conditions of

service are similar and the pension

system is the same. It is possible that

the result of the work of the Salaries

Commission will be to increase the

salaries of the officers of the class

which you wish to benefit, and this will

of course favourably affect their pensions.

In that event, the discontent to which

you refer may well disappear.

with

a

reis

to

between

distinguishing

European and Anatic

officers

were

to be

considered

it might

will be formed deniable

that the

change should be in the direction of reducing

i abolishing

the climatic allowance

in the

cart

rather than

of înatics の

in that

the

of increasing existing benefits to Europeans.

8.