Enclosure 1.
352
which has
now driven
I have the honour to be
My Lord, Your Lordship's Most Obedient
Humble Servant,
Burch
(Copy)
Acting Registrar General.
you will submit
I beg that to the Acting Colonial Secretary for the
consideration of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, the
following application for
to enable me
to
an allowance
engage
the
services of
a writer who is conversant with
Mandarin in order to enable me to
continue
my study of the dialect
which the Government caused me to learn, and generally assist me in
the performance of my official work,
which as
you
are aware
Chinese in character.
is
chiefly
It is obvious that unless