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No. 25
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Government House,
Hongkong, 18th. January, 1902.
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Sir,
You
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With reference to Sir Henry Blake's
Telegrams of the 19th. and 31st, ultimo, and yours of the 20th. of the same month, I have the honour to inform you that the reason why no provision was made in the Estimates for the
salaries of the Staff of the Kowloon School was that no approval had been obtained of the expenditure recommended in Sir Henry Blake's Despatch No. 215 of the 8th, June last. In his telegram of the 17th. September, you were asked to suspend
action in connection with the recommendations contained in that Despatch, and you replied on the same day stating that you had done so. Sir Henry Blake made his request not because he wished his previous recommendations as to salaries to be cancelled, but because, having found a suitable candidate in Mr. James, formerly Assistant Master in Queen's College, for the post of Headmaster, he did not wish the Crown Agents to take any action with regard to the engagement of a candidate in England.
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On the 19th. December, Sir Henry Blake telegraphed to you that he recommended Mrs. Span as Mistress of the School, and that if you approved of the appointment she should start for Hongkong at once. In execution of this
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
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