CO129-560-9 Mrs H.M. Taylour- widow of former harbour master- application for financial assistance 23-5-1937 - 9-7-1937 — Page 14

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four sons, three of whom are in or connected with the naval service, but particularly the eldest, my son by my first marriage, who volunteered for the war, was wounded and inval- ided for life before he was nineteen, on whom must fall the greater part of this financial loss.

Finally I would point out that in granting a bonus such as this the Government would but carry out a generous

generous precedent set by themselves in Hongkong. Soon after my husband's retire- ment in 1920 on a pension at that time of under £400 a year, several other Hongkong Civil Servants of about his rank as heads of departments who had served the Crown for shorter periods than his total of more than 40 years in the Navy and Colonial Service combined, were fortunate enough, because their time could be counted under the Colonial Service alone, in receiving pensions of double or even treble that which he received, and in addition were granted capital sums as large or larger than that for which I now plead.

I ask this in recognition of my husband's long, faithful and not undistinguished service, and as an act of grace to his widow and children.

With renewed and very grateful thanks for the deeply appreciated kindness which has already been shown me

I have the honour to be

Yours faithfully,

Harnt Faglour