This paragraph is to be read as:
By omitting the paragraph regarding the men in 509 (in Der wum)
6.0 Hongkong appointment, you should refer to 8306/97.
4. If you are prepared to accept the present appointment, you should present yourself to one of the medical advisers of this Department, whose names are given in the annexed letter, for the purpose of being medically examined. The letter is to be detached and left with him; and you will be required to pay him a fee of one guinea. He will send his report direct to this Department.
48. 15 female nurses.
DRAFT.
You will be provided with a free passage to the Colony, on your signing the usual agreement with the Crown Agents for the Colonies, Downing Street, S.W., by which you will be bound to repay to the Colonial Government the cost of your passage in the event of your relinquishing the appointment within three years of the date of your arrival in the Colony for any other reason than mental or physical infirmity.
You will be entitled to half salary from the date of your embarkation from this country, and to full salary from the date of your arrival in the Colony.
I am to request that you will inform me of the earliest date at which you will be prepared to leave for the Colony, in order that the necessary communications may be made to the Governor and to the Crown Agents.
I am,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
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The US of State
6.0 MINUTE.
Mr. Macquaghlan 20/4
Lucas 20
Mr. Graham
Mr. Fairfield.
Mr. Wingfield.
Mr. Brimston.
Sir R. Meade.
Earl of Selborne.
Mr. Chamberlain.
Sir,
2nd April '97
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I am directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 4846/4635 of the 17th inst., recommending the officer of Corporal (the score) of the Medical Staff Corps, Corporal Underwood, 22.4.97.
Copy submitted 19180 as altered. Fuchs to 9206 to be returned.
Trained Hospital Warder in the Hong Kong Hospital.
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