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however, different.

The joint effect of Section

2 (c) (i) of the Hong Kong Pensions Ordinance

(No. 21 of 1932) and of Hong Kong General Order

117 is that officers retiring from Class I of

the Hong Kong Cadet Service or equivalent posts get a pension based on £2000 per annum whereas

officers retiring from the majority of Class IA

or equivalent appointments in Malaya draw a pension

computed on only £1680 per annum. The reason for

creating this disparity I do not know; it may perhaps have been to "compensate" the Hong Kong

Cadets for the absence of Staff Posts such as the

Malayan residencies and pan-Malayan specialist appointments. I do not however see how Hong Kong

can afford to pay pensions based on conditions,

responsibilities and jurisdictions that do not

and cannot obtain here, or why for instance the

retiring Postmaster-General of Hong Kong should enjoy

a larger pension than the retiring Director-General

of Posts and Telegraphs, Malaya.

4.

I incline therefore towards the view, which

is shared by the Colonial Treasurer, that unless

African precedent points to the contrary the new

salary rates for posts scheduled in the second enclosure

to my despatch No. 138 should be applied to all future

appointments to those posts whether made by local

promotion or from outside.

5.

If this view should meet with your acceptance

I anticipate a petition from the European Civil Servants

Council, a body which has forwarded to the Colonial

Secretary the following Resolution passed by it on