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Enclosure 1.
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Sir,
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Chanbord,
2 NOV 08
Hongkong, 14th.September, 1908.
I have the honour to request that Your
Excellency will be good enough to lay my name before the
Secretary of State for the Colonies as a candidate for promotion
in the legal branch of the service either in the Eastern
Colonies or in the West Indies.
A record of ry service is given at pagos
224 and 225 of the Hongkong Civil Service list from which it
appears that out of my 18 years service I have been erployed
for approximately 114 years on the legal side as follows:-
In the Straits Settlements 24 years.
to
1994 August 23rd 3rd. Dagistrate or Deputy Registrar, Supreme
Court, Penang.
1897 Jany. 1st.
In Hongkong 9 years.
1899 June 23rd. } As Police Naristrate: Kember and Fresident
to the present time.) of the Land Court: Attorney-General (9
months) and Pulsne Judge - in which latter capacity I am now
acting. I was called to the "helish Bar in Tarch, 1899. I need
not say that I shall be extremely grateful for any favourable
representation Your Excellency may be kind enough to make
in support of my application.
His Excellency
Sir Frederick Lugard, K.0.M.G.,
Governor,
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I have etc.,
(sd.) I. X. J. Gompertz,
Fuisne Judge.
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