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OPY.
The Honourable
sir,
Mr. C. McI. Messer,
Colonial Treasurer.
Assessor's Office,
The Treasury,
436
Hongkong, 15th. October, 1909
41335
Race 22 DEC 09
In view of the fact that I have completed
twenty years service I beg leave to submit an application for an
increase of salary or promotion in or out of the Colony.
2.
The position of Assessor has been held by
me ever since my first appointment, and I am, without exception,
the only Officer at present serving in Hongkong, to have been
kept in the same post for twenty years without any promotion whatever. Upon several occasions I have, unsuccessfully, applied
for promotion, and was informed the last time that not being a
Cadet I was ineligible. To be told this, which means that with- -out any consideration being given to length of service, merit,
c., I am barred from all chances of promotion, is most dis-
-couraging, particularly when on looking through the Civil Service List I find seven Cadet Posts (including my own) filled
by non-Cadets, and, since the above intimation was conveyed to
me two-non-Cadets have been appointed to Cadet Posts, and one
other has been given an acting appointment.
3.
The Post of Assessor being, as it were, an
isolated position, I am quite out of the ruining for acting
appointments; the only occasions (outside the Volunteer Corpa)
upon which I have acted being as Assistant Superintendent of the Fire Brigade (March 1891 to March 1892) with $60 per month
for eight months; as one of the Census Officers in 1897, and as
Secretary to the Sanitary Commission (Novauder, 1906, to April,
1907,)