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be payable in the case of all confirmed

officers (paragraph 115 of the Colonial

Administrative Service unification scheme).

At the present these gratuities are not

payable in Hong Kong unless the officer has

completed five years' pensionable service. I

consider that it would be desirable for Hong Kong

to conform to what is now the usual practice of

the Colonial Service.

10. Any changes in conditions of service

which may be introduced as a result of the

general review which I am asking you to under-

take would be applied in the first instance to

new entrants only. The question whether and if

so to what extent serving officers should be

given an opportunity, or be called upon, to

accept such changes would be a matter for

separate consideration in the light, inter alia,

of the conditions offered to, and accepted by

them on first appointment to Hong Kong.

11.