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3,9.09.
Your letter dated September 12t duly to hand me that I have been granted a pension of £ 65 a year from the Hong Kong Government, and also asking whether I desire to continue to contribute towards the Widows and Orphans Pension Fund.
In reply
I respectfully beg
to aste that this matter be
recoroidered owing to the exceptional nature of the case. 1. When I left Hong Kong
on September 12t 1908 I had not
the slightest
idea that
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other
way, therefore
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Colony entirely.
I attack cutting of Newspaper report of the meeting of the Sanitary Board previous to my leaving Hong Sling
leave.
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"China Mail"
Pullished in Hong Kong.
July 22th 1908.
SANITARY BOARD.
The President Mr C. McI. Messer presided over a meeting of the Sanitary Board, yesterday afternoon when there were present Hoa. Mr W. Chatham, Hon. Mr E. A. Irving, Lieut. Col. J. M. Reid, Messrs H. Humphreys, A. Shelton Hooper, Ian Chu Pak, Dr Pearse, M.O.H., Dr Macfarlane, assistant M.O.H., and the secretary Mr A. Gibson.
CONVENIENCES AT KOWLOON,
With regard to the Colonial Secretary's letter referring to the amending of the section of the Ordinance, in reference
to the permitting of water closets at Kowloon, stating that the power of final approval should be vested in the Governor- in-Council did not imply a slight on the Sanitary Board, Mr Shelton Hooper said -Sir, Why I called attention to the letter the Government seat down to us informing us of the reason why they had made that change, which I characterised as a slight on the Board, was ou account of reasons given at the Legislative Council as reported in "Hansard" for making the proposed change. The Colonial Secretary stated that "in defiance of medical opinion con- sulted, the Board had decided to permit water closets at Kowloon." It was for these reasons I thought it was a slight on the Board, but -- the
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