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10. The institution of (a) would run counter to your
instructions with regard to increased financial liabilities
and the present four-year tour with a reduction to three
after twenty years service is by no means a severe condition
of service in the circumstances of Hong Kong. Any
attempt at the present time to make three years the normal
tour of duty would, I feel sure, meet with strong opposition
from the unofficial community.
11. Leave on urgent private affairs (b) seems to be
sufficiently covered by the new rules. Subject to the
exigencies of the Service an officer can take at any time
the leave he has earned by service and with the separate
voyage allowance this should suffice for almost any emergency.
If more leave is required it can be granted on half-pay under new Rule 167.
12.
As to (c), it has not been considered feasible to
provide for special leave to England on account of sickness.
It would hardly be possible to limit a provision dealing with sickness to one section of the service and the repercussions of such a rule among the non-European sections might be
inconvenient. Moreover so far as sickness in the Colony is concerned the new rules are distinctly generous and if a change of climate becomes imperative the arrangements described in the last paragraph should suffice.
13. Point (d) seems sufficiently met by new Rule 178 (10) under Passages and (e) by clause (4) of the same rule. Clause (3) will also be of assistance to officers in this
connection.
14.
Point (f) is covered in general terms by new Rules 146 and 178(9).
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