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Stg Choy to be an Acting Police Magistrate in the absence of us Plunket I have the honor to state that it was an arrangement sanctioned at Sir Plunket's request, under clause 193 of the Colonial Regulations, when I granted him the four months' vacation leave on...
Government have made such arrangements as may be necessary to the adequate discharge of his duties without cost to the public.
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I have the honor to lay before Your Lordship a copy of the correspondence that took place at the time on the subject.
The Regulation in question lays:- "In which cases no report to the Secretary of State is necessary but the Officer absenting himself must, with the concurrence or sanction of the Governor, make such arrangements as may be necessary...
On my despatch No. 98 of July 1886 I mentioned the incidentals that Mr. Ng Choy's conduct as Acting Police Magistrate during Mr. Plunket's absence had confirmed the high opinion I entertained of his character and ability. It is but bare justice to Mr. Ng Choy to add that in some of the more important qualifications...