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On 03 Feb,08, at 2:37 AM, D E wrote: > > GG had retired as a plantation manager, which was ostensibly a > Civil Service post, thus with a pretty decent pension, just becuase > of a war it doesn't mean all money evaporated > > You are conflating two different jobs. He started as a plantation manager--working for a private concern. Later he became a civil servant as a customs official. I doubt that 1930s pensions were terribly generous. Chas Clifton --------------------------------------------------------------- "Letter from Hardscrabble Creek" -- a Pagan writer's blog http://www.chasclifton.com/blogger.html