eighteen months leave, he cannot
Comply with
your request.
to the post-office at Hongkong is about to be transferred to the control of the local
Govt., the Postmaster General
thinks that your presence in the colony is rather desirable.
Copy
160% 3 Leagle Terrace
Sir
290
Dalkey. A. Dublin
13th September 189...
I feel extremely sorry
that the present state of my health compels me again to trouble you on the subject of extension of leave but the enclosed Medical Certificate will, I hope, plead an excuse. It appears from your letter No. 950 H. of 2nd Instant that His Lordship the Postmaster General, considering my short period of service in the Post Office Department and my having been already granted eighteen months leave, declines granting my
request for an additional
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