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Beck | OST 00
Government House,
HongKong,
30th
August, 1900.
510
mo
2970
942
9.00
Sir,
I have to acknowledge the receipt
of your despatch No.250 of 20th. July, 1900, approving of
the addition of one additional clerk for Mail sorting and
of two additional stampers.
2. The Acting Postmaster General
points out that there are at present 3 Marine Officers
and that each Marine Officer requires one Assistant and
two stampers, Paragraph 8 of Captain iïastings* letter of
13th.November enclosed in my despatch 355 of 8th. December
shows that three Marine Officers were necessary. Had
the recommendations embodied in that despatch been ap-
proved, two of the Clerks then asked for would have been
used as Marine Assistant Sorters and "hen not so employ-
ed would have been utilised in the general work of the
office. This is the explanation given by the Postmaster
General. It may be well to ask Captain Hastings if that
was what he intended.
Cheting
3. As those recommendations heve
not been approved I have the honour now to request that
authority be given for the appointment of two additional
Clerks for Mail sorting.
I have the honour to be,
The Right lionourable,
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
&C
&C
&C..
sir,
Your most obedient,
liumble servant,
Huang, Aslake
GOVERNOR, &C.