be omitted in order to cope
with Appointments of more than 500 (
selection can be completed. In other respects you will be subject to the Colonial Regulations in force for the time being, which are published in the annual "Colonial Office List," and can also be consulted in this Office. The appointment is under the Colonial Government, and your emoluments will be paid solely from the funds of the Colony.
You should present yourself to one of the Medical Advisers of this Department, whose names are given in the annexed letter, for the purpose of being medically examined. The letter is to be detached and left with him; and you will be required to pay him a fee of one guinea. He will send a report to this Department.
If finally selected for the probationary appointment, you will be provided with a free mail passage to the Colony, on your signing the usual agreement with the Crown Agents for the Colonies, Downing Street, S.W., by which you will be bound to repay to the Colonial Government the cost of your passage in the event of your relinquishing the appointment within three years of the date of your arrival in the Colony for any other reason than mental or physical infirmity.
You will be entitled to half salary from the date of your embarkation from this country, and to full salary from the date of your arrival in the Colony. In the event of your appointment being cancelled, you will not be entitled to any leave of absence or pay after the date of the letter by which the cancellation is notified to you, unless the Governor, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State, shall grant it on special grounds.
I am to request that you will inform me of the earliest date at which you will be prepared to leave for the Colony, in order that the necessary communications may be made to the Governor and to the Crown Agents.
I am to enclose a paper No. 13, Far East, which shows the manner in which salary is paid in Hong Kong. The last three paragraphs of the enclosure will be applicable to your appointment in the event of its being made permanent during the year.
DRAFT.
M 4929
03
B.T.L. Barnett, Esq.
Mr. Fiddian
· Johnson
Mr. Antrobus.
Mr. Cox.
Mr. Lucas.
Mr. Graham.
Sir M. Ommanney. Earl of Onslow.
Mr. Chamberlain.
M.B.
13 Feb
$334
Anod 5334
840
H.K
4. Kay
Yuj
7 Feb/ox
In continuation of the letter from this Office of the 7th inst., I am directed to state that if appointed to the post of Assistant Medical Officer of Health at Hong Kong, you would receive conveyance allowance at the rate of £270 a year, which in the Colony is not considered...