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No.

98

HONGKONG.

REPORT ON THE WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS' PENSION FUND FOR THE YEAR 1897,

Laid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government.

HONGKONG, 25th January, 1898.

SIR,--We have the honour to submit the following Report on the Widows' and Orphans' Fund for 1897.

A Statement of Accounts of the Fund to 31st December, 1897, is appended.

On that date, the Funds were disposed of as follows:

On Fixed Deposit, Hongkong and Shanghai Bank,

Current Account

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Total,...

....$ 43,000.00

41.11

..$ 43,041.11

The average monthly contributions amount now to about $730.

During the period under review, 45 officers joined the Fund and 25 contributors left. There are at present 192 contributors on the books; of whom 76 are bachelors, 111 are married, and 5 are widowers.

There are 216 children on the books.

The average age of the three classes of contributors is as follows:-

Bachelors,...... Married men, Widowers,....

... About 28 years.

....A fraction under 37 years.

......52 years and 4 months.

The number of pensioners, viz., 6, remains the same as in the previous year :—

Mrs. MOOSDEEN,... ...............$ 63.67 per annum, from 7th January, 1892.

Mrs. BEAVIN,

LEUNG CHE WAN,

CHAN TAI,

Mrs. MOFFATT,

Mrs. MOORE,

3rd June, 1894.

23rd January, 1896.

$ 14.45

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$ 30.09

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$ 54.85

39

17th February, 1896..

$163.10.

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14th June, 1896.

$119.92

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17

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22nd July, 1896.

5 children of the late S. MOORE, ...$119.93

We have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your obedient Servants,

T. SERCOMBE SMITH,

Chairman.

A. W. BREWIN,

F. MACHADO,

FRANCIS W. CLARKE,

J. G. DA ROCHA,

Directors.

The Honourable J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Colonial Secretary,

SC.,

&c.