COPIES TESTIMONIALS
OF
WILLIAM C. H. HASTINGS,
COMMANDER (RETIRED) R.N.; ASSISTANT HARBOUR MASTEL, HONG-KONG; AND CORRESPONDENCE IN RELATION THERETO.
MAGISTRACY, HONG KO
17th March, 1897.
R-I beg respectfully to make application to you for promotion her 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 undo whom I have from time to time served. I have not asked His Excellency Sir Wiliam Robinson, K.C.M.G., for any certificate, but it will be seen from the Memorandum that be as conferred on me a number of acting appoint- ments, commencing with that of Acting Police Magistate in April, 1892
3. From this Memorandum it with be see that I have served for thirty-two years in two Departments, and that for the last eight years of which have been spent in this Colony- I have had no leave.
4. For the last six years I have served continuously Harbour Master, Police Magistrate, and Captain_Superintendent of Police. On return of Mr. Wodehouse, Police Magistrate, in the Pring 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,hich is equivalent for leave salary and pension to £625, the 5 per cent. increase granted in 1891, no 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 am married and have five children, of whom two are being educated
in England, and that the marge of their education constitutes in the present state of exchange in the Colony a considerable drain on m resources.
7 I will be very grateful if you can accord your favourable consideration to my request.
have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most humble and obedient servant,
The Right Honourable
Joseph Chamberlain, M.P.,
WILLIAM C. H. HASTINGS,
Acting Police Magistrate.
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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. Froni 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 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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