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organisations, and of dependents of deceased members, can apply for assist nice to the Committee of the Hong Kong War Memorial Fund. No precise scale of benefits is laid down and such continuing relief payments as are made are subject to periodical review. Relier is never forthcoming automatically. The Committee, who have a wide discretion pa the adminis- tration of the Pund, consider each application for assistance entirely on its merits; in considering an application from, for example, a dependent, the Committee may take into account such factors as the salary that was earned by the decense breadwinner, the value of the deceased's estate and the present means of the applicent. The Committee have awarded single lump-sum payments, rather than continuing grants, when they considered that the applicant's All circumstances made such a course preferable. awards are met from the Fund, the capital formich was found partly by Government and partly by public subscription.
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Ely told me, in his letter of the 24th May, that the Ministry find it necesary to take into account the payment which Mrs. Tinson receives from the Hong Kong War Memorial Fund. I must confess, however, that we feel there is some force in the Governor's argument that the Hong Kong award is not made under a scheme, etc, within the intentions of Article 60 of the unite Kingdom Fersonal Injuries (Civilions) Scheie. I gathered, in the course of a telephone conversation with you, that the decision was arrived at only after the question had been referred to the Ministry's Legal Adviser. Wa should, however, be most grateful if the question could be further examined in the light of what I have written above, unless, of course, all these considerations were fully taken into account at the time.
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