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Confidential.
Sir,
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Kegistrar-General's Office,
Hongkong, 13th. June, 1905.
I have the honour to forward herewith for the information of His Excellency the Governor a copy of a report by the Assistant kegistrar-General on the present state of the Station- -ery Stock Book.
2.
It is now sight weeks since I ordered a stock
to be taken of the stationery. The report by kr. hood shows the reason why it has not hitherto been done, i attach also a letter which i purposed to address to the Colonial Secretary on the 22nd. January, 1904, but which I withdrew on Mr. Bullin's promise to os more careful in future. There was an improvement in this for some time but latterly there have been unfortunately further signs in the Cash-book of carelessness.
5.
The fact is that Mr. Bullin is unable to do satisfactorily the work of Birst Clerk in this Office, all that he is able to do could be done with perhaps one exception by a Chinese clerk on $40 a month. If any work requiring intelligence has to be done I have to pass by Mr. Bullin and entrust it to one of the Cirinese Clerks. Fapers are always misiaid by him, the records are never kept in order. The attached draft return of 0.5.0. documents in this Office at the end of November last shew the inaccuracy of
his work. he had failed to note that eight papers on the list had
already been sent back. The attached copy of a minute of mine as to
the state of the European Death Register for 1903 is another
proof of his carelessness.
4.
The oue particular in which Mr. Bullin is of
more
Honourable
The Colonial Secretary.