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Extract from Secretary of State's Despatch N. 137 of 18th July 1890, relative to Mr. Malsch's Memorial as to his position in the Public Works Department.
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First with regard to Mr. Malsch's Memorial which accompanied your last mentioned despatch, I have to state that I regret that I am unable to meet his wishes. Indeed I am not even prepared to approve of his being assigned the position in the Department, which on reconsideration Mr. Brown proposed for him. Mr. Malsch's experience has, so far as I can ascertain, been mainly confined to land surveying and drawing work. In 1885 he applied for and obtained an appointment in Hong Kong