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there is a case for their making an ex gratia award on

compassionate grounds, and I have written to the Secretary

for the Civil Service to ask him to consider this.

4.

In the meantime, as Mr Sc revealed in his first letter,

Lord Cranborne's enquiry has led the Hong Kong Inland Revenue

Department to look again at Mr Penhearow's file, and they

have discovered a further refund owing to his widow.

10 October 1979'

Rukanghun

RJT McLaren

Hong Kong and General Department

1

not convinced there

CAMA

ex-gratia

award, and

if the

good case

for

of la

Hong Kong Government should refuse (es.

grounds of precedent-setting) I don't think

them.

Meanwhile

1

agree

we should

press

with the terms of the interim letter.

PARK.

16/10.

10/10