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Enclosure No. 1 to Despatch No. 4-3 of the
6th. September, 1902.·
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Volunteer Headquarters,
Hongkong, September 1st., 1902.
From Major O. 3. Pritchard,
Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps:
To Honourable Colonial Secretary,
Sir,
Hongkong.
I have the honour to submit herewith a copy of the original telegram, received at Singapore on February 21st., 1903, of- fering me the appointment of Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps."
In this telegram the appointment was offered to me with pay in sterling at $750 a year and I find on arrival here that my pay is not according to this offer but about £830 a year owing to loss in exchange. Had I known that this telegram did not state the correct amount and that my pay was not in sterling, I should then have taken up an appointment to Mountain Artillery in India, which was open to me, in preference to this.
I should be glad if His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government could see his way to recommend that my pay should be given me in sterling as distinctly stated in the telegram and that the loss in exchange since April 2nd. last be made good to
me.
I understand that in a similar case to mine, only for a larger income, the Honourable Attorney-General of this Colony has been allowed to draw his pay in sterling as it was offered to him and therefore request that my pay should also be allowed according to the terms of the offer of the appointment.
I have ato.','
(sd.) O. 3.. Pritchard,
Major,
Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps.