No. 397.
Hongkong.
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Government House,
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Hongkong, 4th. September, 1902.
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sir,
With reference to your Despatch No. 164
of the 6th. June last, I have the honour to inform you that
Constables Cook and Wylie have been sent home.
The latter's health broke down and it had been decided
to invalid him shortly before the receipt of your Despatch
above referred to.
2.
The records in the Gaol Printing Depart-
ment show that 50 copies of the conditions of service for
Water Police embodying the 8 hours duty clause were printed
1900
in November, 1900, a few days before the particulars of office
for a Water Police Inspector referred to in the 5th. paragraph
of Sir Henry Blake's Despatch No. 499 of the 17th. November,
1900. Mr. May, who was at the time Captain Superintendent of
Police and Superintendent of the Gaol, states that both forms were printed for the purposes of the requisition for the
Inspector of Water Police and six Constables asked for in that
Despatch, but there is no record in the Colonial Secretary's
Office that the conditions of service for the Constables were
actually forwarded.
3.
Inspector Riley who was the selected
candidate
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
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