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ENCLOSURE 4.
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& Rep 21 OUT 06
To H. E.Major-General Wilsone Black, C.B.
Officer Administering the Government of Hong-Kong.
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The humble petition of the under-
signed Chinese Civil Servants in the
employ of the Govt. of Hong-Kong.
Humbly Sheweth,
Your Petitioners are all of them employed by the
Hong-Kong Government and are paid in the currency of the Co-
lony and the majority of them have been so employed for pe-
riods ranging from 15 to 25 years.
سن
Your Petitioners have with very few exceptions born
and brought up in the Colony of Hong-Kong and have there been
accustomed more after the European style than the Chinese.
In their own country in the vicinity of the sea the food of the Chinese consists principally of pork, poultry, beef, fresh or dried fish, sweet potatoes, Chinese long beans and other Chinese vegetables, but in consequence of your Petition- ers' parents having been brought into every day contact with
Europeans in Hong-Kong and heen accustomed to meat and other
European articles of food as their natural diet your Peti-
tioners have, from infancy been also accustomed to the same European style of living.
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