Enclosure 1.
Rre
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21008 49
Red 12 JUN 06
Money Order Office,
Hongkong, 9th. March, 1906..
sir,
ķ
I have the honour most respectfully to
request that you will forward this my application to His excel-
-lency the Governor, with your favourable recommendation that it
merits, that the post of Superintendent of the Money Order Office
be pieced in Class I instead of Class 11 as at present classified.
When the Classification Schere was formulat-
-ed in 1901, 1 was away from my post here being acting Post-
-master at Shanghai and had therefore no opportunity of contest-
-ing for a higher classification for my office when the Scheme
wês drawn up and approved.
On the 1st. May next 1 will have completed
16 years as Superintendent of the Money Order Office. I did not
enter the service as a junior clerk and worked my way up but was
selected from the applicants for the post, as Superintendent, in
1890. 1 had already served & years in the Naval Store Department,
His Majesty's Naval Yard here when I left the Imperial Government
to join the Colonial Government Service.
On taking charge of the Money Order Branch
the office was in chaos owing to my predecessor having absconded
on account of defalcations in the Money Order funds. With the
help and guidance of Mr. b. C. Nicolle, the late Local Auditor,
the working of the Money Order Office has been perfected and
placed on a sound business working basis. i se proud to say that
the growth of the Money Order Office work has been so zealously
fostered, watched, and guarded, that in no instance has lack
of
The Postmaster-General.