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Wives and children areurance of the raid Rule and your Petitioner has more regeerted the local Government to reconsider his case but has been imposed that it cannot be re-opened.
Your Petitioner is required to do more Building Overeier and is employed in the reeponsible position of Inspector of Buildings. His duties are on arduous and his Salary is emall and inadequate to the incrcased expense of living in this Colony. He with difficulty maintains himself and his Wife and one Child and the said sum of $350.97 is of importance to him. He submits that he has been unjustly compelled to repay that sum to the Government and that he is clearly entitled under the said Rule 183 of the "Colonial Office Regulations" to have the passages of his Wife and child (as well as his own) paid for by the Crown Agents or by the Government of Hongkong.
The said Rule draws no distinction between temporary and permanent appointments and your Petitioner's appointment is for a period of three years with possible extension.
Your Petitioner therefore humbly prays that you may be pleased to direct that the sum of $350.97 be paid to your Petitioner as aforesaid and repaid by him (under protest) to the Government of Hongkong be again paid to him by the Crown Agents or by the local Government.