to pay his own passage to Hong Kong, I think it will cost about £120. During his residence there he had to subscribe to the "Retiring Fund". Owing to his health & on medical certificate he was granted leave of absence to return home on condition that he should pay his own passage home, an outlay of about £120. and now he is left unprovided for.
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You will have that attention which it is entitled. I venture to ask you to interest yourself in procuring for him an adequate compensation for his expenses & loss of office or an allowance equivalent in value to that of which he has been deprived through no fault of his own.