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COMMANDER (RETIXED) IN.; ASSISTANT HARBOUR MASTER, HONG-KONG;
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17th March, 1897.
SIRI beg respectfully to make application to you for promotion either in this Colony or elsewhere.
2. In making this application, I take leave to attach a Memorandum of my services, and also certificates from Governors of Colonies and other Officers under whom I have from time to time served. I have not asked His Excellency Sir William Robinson, K.C.M.G., for any certificate, but it will be seen from the Memorandum that he has conferred on me a number of acting appoint ments, commencing with that of Acting Police Magistrate in April, 1892.
3. From this Memorandum it will be seen that I have served for thirty-two years in two Departments, and that for the last eight years-seven of which have been spent in this Colony-
I have had no leave.
4. For the last six years I have served continuously as Harbour Master, Police Magistrate, and Captain Superintendent of Police. On the return of Mr. Wodehouse, Police Magistrate, in the ensuing month, I shall have to revert to my substantive post of Assistant Harbour Master.
5. The salary of my substantive appointment is 3,000 dols. a year, which is equivalent for leave salary and pension to £625, the 35 per cent. increase granted in 1891, not having been allowed in the case of this office. A copy of the Government notification on this subject is enclosed.
6. I may mention that I am married and have five children, of whom two are being educated in England, and that the charge of their education constitutes in the present state of exchange in the Colony a considerable drain on my resources.
7 I will be very grateful if you can accord your favourable consideration to my request.
The Right Honourable
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Joseph Chamberlain, M.P.,
Your most humble and obedient servant,
WILLIAM C. H. HASTINGS,
Acting Police Magistrate.
Secretary of State for the Colonies.
MEMORANDUM OF SERVICES.
1. I retired from Her Majesty's Navy with the rank of Commander after sixteen years' service, joining the Colonial service in October, 1881.
2. I served in Jamaica from November, 1881, when I took up the appointment of Inspector of Immigrants till May, 1889. From 1886, I was also Coroner. From May, 1889, to December, 1889, I was Chief of Police in St. Lucia, and for two months also Harbour Master and Pilot.
3. In March, 1890, having been transferred from St. Lucia, I took up the appointment of Assistant Harbour Master in Hong Kong, which is my present substantive appointment.
4. From February, 1891, to April, 1892, I discharged the duties of Acting Harbour Master in addition to those of my own appointment.
5. In April, 1892, on the return of the Harbour Master, I was appointed Acting Police Magistrate, and discharged those duties in conjunction with my own as Assistant Harbour Master, till May, 1895.
6. From May, 1895, till April, 1896, I was Acting Captain Superintendent of Police and
the Fire Brigade.
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