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PENSIONS BILL DEBATE

MR. BRAGA'S PLEA FOR LOCAL MEN

STATISTICS REFUSED

anees wak

formation as to the approximate probable cost to the Colony in 1933 nssuming that all public servants are compulsorily retired who baye already attained or who will attais 65 years of age next year. I use the word "nasume" advisedly, since I cannot imagine that the Govern- ment will choose to be deprived of the services of all good met in 1983 when they will have attain- ed the age limit.

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Depressed?

Then ser to your internal organs. good cleansing. They need toning up and R

Fastest crossing

TO.

CHINA

AND

JAPAN

PACIFIC COAST

I a given to understand that The Bill to consolidate and amend the law regulating the the estimate of coat, which need granting of Publie Service pen-only be approximate. Is not avail- sions, gratuities and other allow able. I cannot imagine what dif

amended in several culty there can exist for compiling particulars when consideration in the estimate for the benefit of this committee was given to it at yes- Council. Salaries, pensions, leave

To keep yourself bright and cheer- terday's meeting of the Legislative privileges and gratuitics are

nearly correlated with the question Council.

waste matter in the food tract. Take of expenditure that, I make hold fut you must avoid accumulations of an occasional dose of Pinkettes and you. feel.

Fastest Crossing of the Pacific to assert, without knowing what it is going to cost the Colony, it

but oficiently Pinketten should not be easy for Members to then note how different

9 days

frorn flat form an unerring decision on the relieve constipation, dispel billous is by Empress Direct Express. debateable question of compulsory attacks, liverishness, sick headaches, route. com.

disorder, banish Yokohama to Vancouver. enrrect stomach

Empress of Asia and Empress retirement.

of Russia. largest and fastest liners on this run, offer First Class for the most fastidious.. at now low fares.

The Attorney General moved the second reading of the Pensions Bill. He said:

.

gently

LIVER & LAXATIVE INKETTE PERPECTION

There have been discussions on various clauses of this Bill and when this Council goes into mitter after the second reading, I

I do not know how far I am cor-depresslun. shall propose the amendments that

rect in belleving that.it will not be I shall now read out.

delete "High possible for Government to defor In Clause 2 (d) Commissioner for Transport in consideration of the second reading Kenya and Uganda" and substituie of the Bill until nome near idea of "Board of Education for England the figures of cost can be made and Wales, or the Crown Agents available. That being the ease, I лі some for the Colonies, or the Colonial beg Your Excellency might be Audit Department (Home Estab-pleared to direct that,

the Colonial Honourable lishment) or the Kenya and Ugandn future date, not too long I hope. Railways and Harbour Adminis- the

Treasurer, who may be willing to tration."*

oblige, kindly furnish the liluminat- ing figures for the Information of the Colony's taxpayers.

Whole Clause Deleted. The whole of Clause 10 will be deleted and the following substitut- ed under the marginal note of Compulsory Retirement:

11 It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to require any a judge, when- officer other than ever appointed, to retire from the who puidic service of this Colony

at appears to the Governor to be unable to discharge efficiently the duties of his office; or (b) being a

Following Fischer Report.

DISPEL GLOOM & KEEP YOU FIT.

For a crossing with Honolulu interlude, book by Empress of Japan, largest, fastest liner on the take luxurious Or Pacific. Empress of Canada, her running Sailings to San Francisco mate.

Enjoy the tion but, as pointed out by my hop- ourable friend, clause 10 is not in- or Los Angeles connect with flexible, and I therefore express the them at Honolulu,

On all Empresses, a earnest hope that in this actual smart, sumptuous luxury of their operation, the Government will give First Class.

re- Tourist Class, of true Empress I gather that the proposed new every consideration to locally Section 10 is drawn up on the lines cruited officers when their time for standard. of the Warren Fischer Report, retirement falls due. A rigorous which has as one of its objects the enforcement of the law in the case anch would the throughout

Crowny to the taxpayers,

some of the alignment of pensions and retiring of the local men cannot but be cost- ages Colonies. I have no means of as-inflict hardship on certaining the recommendations of men. that report. I am, speaking from conjecture.

may be theoretically branches of the Colonial Service conditions brought into line with an another, 1 doubt whether it can be said with equal truth that the Fischer regom- mendations can be made applicable to all the branches of Civil Service in the Colonies, Service conditions and other considerations vary.

For example, I have in mind the

therefore, Attorney General's Reply.

While The Attorney General.-With re- woman who has entered the public may be true that in the higher gard to the question of cost, a table service of this Colony who (a) ap pears to the Governor to be unable

could be prepared showing the total cost of pensions, if every officer of on 1Яt 5 years or over retired

figure to discharge efficiently the duties of his office; or the being a woman

would entail considerable labour in mean who has entered the pubfle service

January, 1923. But this and would of this

preparation after the commencement Ordinance is married,

nothing when prepared. For while he wished, in which case the pro- every such officer could so retire if posed new clause 10 could not be obvioun anil to cause any increase in the not that the Government would cost of government, it in

or over on January 1st, 1933, nor attempt to retire all officers of 65 can it be assumed either that all such officers will wish to retire on 1st January, 1933, or that all will wish to remain on beyond that date. Moreover, supposing all such off- cers did retire on 1st January, Colchy would involve the 1933, an estimate of the cost to the calculation of the cost of filling their posts, the salary of the suc cossoy being seldom if over name as the salary of the retiring their old age. officer.

There are so many hyntheticn! features about an estimate of the They can contemplate retirement with complacency and even happy frame of mind. This much kind asked for by my honourable cant be said of the subordinate friend that I think it would be un- branches of the Service. Theirs fair to expect my honourable friend They the Colonial Treasurer to prepare is a hand-to-mouth wage.

the rarn just enough to make ends it. The most I feel justified in any

a maning is that, in-as-muck as With regard to this amendment, meet, and, in the case of I would point out that under Clause with a more than the average size Ordinance is intended to encourage 19 of this Bill, the rights of off of family, the problem of adjusting earlier retirement, it will in course Public Service, the domestic budgel must be a of years be likely to lend to sumic cers mow in the

increase in the cost of pensions. under the existing Pension Legisla-worrying and a perplexing one, tim are safeguarded.

Inflicting Hardship. Under

category,

(2) The normal age of retire Iment for any public officer, other than a judge, shall be deemed to have been attained if he or she-

a) has attained the age of fifty-subordinate branches of the clerical the five years, or (h) being an Indian departments of the Government in subordinate officer of the Prison Hongkong. I maintain that Department, Indy medical officer salaries of locally recruitel Govern taly serving in the Education De- ment employees are not sufficient to partment, or a European attendant enable them to provide for their This is specially true of on at a Government mental hospital, old age. or a matron, nursing sister or married men. Public servants nurse in a Government hospital, sterling salaries stand in a different The difference is even has attained the age of fifty years;

more greatly accentuated in the and any such officer, who shall have attained the normal age of retire-case of those men with families in ment, shall retire from the public the Colony and are not under the service of the Colony unless the ressity of making remittances to Governor in Council decides that Bagland. Generally speaking, the latter are well paid and, ordinarily, his or her services shall be retained. In ease, however, except with should be in a position to save the approval of the Secretary of Substantially for State, shall the services of any such officer be retained for more than five years after he or she has attained the normal age of retire- ment.

Rights Prateetz%Ï.

the existing

l'ension

in a

the

no more

A Gradual Procesa. But my honourable friend must Legislation, officers ny be retired To compel retirement at age 55 remember that the rights of exist- for incompetence by the Governor of local men whose mental and ing officers are preserved by clause in Council or apart from any ques-physical condition has not suffered 19 of the Bill, and although in the tion of incompetence on attaining impairment in the least, will to my matter or compulsory retirement the age of 55 years, except that mind, inflict hardship by depriving these rights amount to

who than the right not to be compulsori- families in the case of certain officers, the

of breadwinners consent of the Secretary of State is would fain continue in employment ly retired between 55 and 60 with- necessary, so that this Bill doen not and whose retention in the Service out the order of the Governor in materially alter the present posi- cannot fail to be of benefit and Council and, in some cases, the ap tion, but if it does so at all, it docs economy to the taxpayers. It la proval of the Secretary of State, I not take away the rights of persons

for such and similar cases that I submit that it is obvious that the now in the service of the Colony.

(Continued on Paje 11.) At the end of Clause 16, it is plend to Your Excellency for con- introduction of the age of 55 as the

sideration that too literal an proposed to add the following:lication of Section 10 of the pro- Such gratuity, if granted to the posed new law might not be dras- legal personal representative, shall ically enforced. I am aware that form part of the

of estate

the law is not inflexible. I beg that the officer for

of purposes

in its operation every care will be distribution under any testament exercised to reduce to a minimum ary disposition made by him or

Casc

ap.

the possibility of hardship and in- Justice being unwittingly inflicted on well-deserving servants of the public to whom every consideration should be extended and from whom the Colony hus benefited by honest, conscientious and loyal services ex- tending over a lifetime.

COMING SHORTLY

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under an intestacy, as the may be; but, nevertheless, no cutate duty shall be payable in respect thereof, and its addition to the principal value of the estate shall not be taken into consideration for the purpose of increasing the rate at which estate duty on the remain-

I would like to add a few words, der of the estate may be payable. In conclusion, for the ladies serving

With regard to the provision for

Education in the death

duty on gratuities, the, Their retiring age is normally 50 gratuities will not be paid out with

years, subject to five years more in one hand and taken back in the

the exceptional cases obtaining the form of Estate Duty with the other approval of the Secretary of Stato. hand. It is the practice not to From personal knowledge of the charge estate duties on death qualifications of some of the Hong- gratuities in England and in the kong young ladies who are teach- Colonies.

of the Government ing in some In Clause 17, the words "or schools I can say, without fear of after", appearing in the marginal contradiction, that no greater as note will be deleted. These words set can be found at so little expense are not wrong but perhaps confus to the Colony than the local teachers of the girls' schools in tendency Subject to what I have said. I Hongkong. There is a move the second reading of this that cannot be strongly deprecated Bill.

that they should be considered Mr. Braga's Speech,

"back numbers" Hon. Mr. Braga said.—It is not of 60 years, or, in the words in criticism of the Bill before the Section 10, having entered the House that I ask Your Excellency's public service after the commenco- permission to address the Council.ment of this Ordinance are marri-

ed." My remarks bear with special re-

inst.

ference on the amended Section 10 of the Bill.

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Mr. Kotewall's Support.

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Salling about

SHANGHAI, & JAPAN FORTS.

4th July.

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27th Aug

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"A" Class

"B" Class

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Hongkong to 1st North

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