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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 17TH FEBRUARY, 1905.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 97.

The following Report on the Widows and Orphans' Pension Fund, for the year 1904, is pub- lished.

By Command,

F. H. MAY,

Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 17th February, 1905.

REPORT ON THE WIDOWS AND ORPHANS' PENSION FUND,

FOR THE YEAR 1904.

THE WIDOWS AND ORPHANS' FUND, HONGKONG, 28th January, 1905.

SIR,- We have the honour to submit the following report on the Widows and Orphans' Pension Fund, for the year 1904.

The amount to the credit of the Fund on the 31st December last was $196,525.75, including $10,383.32 for interest, as per statement appended.

The average monthly contributions amount now to about $2,300.

On the 31st December, 1903, the number of contributors on the books was 435, and on the 31st December, 1904, 449, of whom 169 are bachelors, 269 are married men, and 11 are widowers.

During the year, 68 officers joined the Fund, 54 left, and 6 died.

The total number of children on the books is 369.

There are in the list 27 pensioners, whose pensions aggregate $3,238.83 per annum, as follows:-

Mrs. Beavin,....

Moosdeen,

35

Moore.

Chan Tai,

.$ 14.45

63.67

239.85

54.85

Alarakia,

13

Chu Tsan.

21

195.54

81.62

"

Lo Lai Shi,

Wildey,

Wong Yan Lin,....

Chow Hung Shi's children,

Madar's daughter,

Ho Yow Tsoi,

5.12

23 26

113.26

30.91

247.63

187.51

Gutierrez,

236.19

Robertson...

163.78

"

11

Cheung Hon Shi,

17.86

Freire,

41.99

19

Duncan,

215.68

!!ood,

45.04

Leung Wong Shi...

34.08

1

Sun Au Yung Shi,

99.46

Ku Yin Kyau,

94.03

Wong Fung Shi,

99.40

Dixon.

249.00

"

Rocha,

181.02

"

Gidley, Seymour, Ng So,.

213.89

243.36

46.47

$3,238.83