Also, a few circulars of the Colonial Civil Servants' Association about trade discounts and hire purchase. The first item (fols. 1-5) is a typed copy of the original circular sent to the Committee of the Widows' & Orphans' Pension Association suggesting the formation of the Ceylon Pensioners' Association (CPA), and the circular about this proposal dated 31 May 1933.

Includes correspondence, chiefly with R.H. Whitehorn, Hon. Secretary, Ceylon Pensioners' Association (CPA). There are papers (fols. 29-63) about an interview granted in 1953 by the Prime Minister of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) to Sir Graeme Tyrrell and E.B. Alexander (former members of the Ceylon (Sri Lanka) Civil Service); and letters and Handing Over Notes, Apr 1959, from Whitehorn to the new Hon. Secretary, H.S.M. Hoare. 138 leaves and three items.

Correspondence between the Ceylon Pensioners' Association (CPA) (Thurston Hamer and H.A. Burden, Hon. Secretaries) and the Ceylon Civil Service Association (H.S.M. Hoare and A.R. Macdonald, Hon. Secretaries), and with the Colonial Office, about the Widows' & Orphans' Pension Fund and Scheme; related papers include cuttings from Ceylon (Sri Lanka) newspapers. There is a copy of a note of a meeting at the Colonial Office on 14 Jan 1937 (Sir John Shuckburgh, Chairman) concerning the...

About double income tax relief for pensioners; also, copies of Orders in Council, minutes of meetings of the Council of Ceylon Association, and press cuttings.

See MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 398/1, folder 5, fols. 68-71, for another copy of the note. Also, further correspondence between Bowes, Burden, Sir Wilfrid Woods, and the Colonial Office, and related papers on the same subject.

Includes cuttings, 1946-1959. Three printed items are inserted loosely Widows' & Orphans' Pension Fund Ordinance 1959; draft of a proposed Ordinance to amend the above, 1946; Ordinance No. 11 of 1947.

Comprises: (items 1-7) Widows' & Orphans' Pension Fund Ordinances: No. 1 of 1898 (reprints dated 1909 and 1913), No. 10 of 1907, No. 4 of 1915, No. 5 of 1924, No. 3 of 1926, and No. 16 of 1928 (fols. 1-3) letter from W.C.S. Ingles, for the Directors of the Fund, to C.M. Lushington about an agitation for improved pensions, 7 Dec 1917 (fols. 4-7) two letters from...

Comprises: (items 1-25) Widows' & Orphans' Pension Fund Reports and other papers, including: (1) Statement and Account for 1915-1916, 1921, 1923-1931; (2) Report of Actuary, 1935 (typed copy); (3) Reports of the Directors (Sessional Papers, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) Government) for 1945 and 1951-1956; and (4) Notice about 'War Allowance', 1916-1957 (items 26-66) Widows' & Orphans'...