(1390), WE, 20024-26, 6000, 11/08, A, & E, W, (8327). 1081-7, 6000, 4/09.
PF. N° 29518/1909.
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Sir J
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REGE 15 SEP 09
% M2 Perrin. 196
73. High Street.
Flough. Bucks.
15.9.09
Your letter of yesterdays dak to hand, and in reply I beg to thank you for forwarding " a copy of my last letter to the Governor of Hongilong. In the meantime I most respectfully ing that I be allowed to be on half-pay until the question of further employment in Hong Kong is settled, and that the question of my contribution to the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Fund is charged accordingly. My grounds for this request are :-
1. The amount of pension granted is not sufficient to
support myself and wife, and it is impossible for me to seek any other employment until the reply is recuind prom Hong Kong.
2. That this is a
I have
mry exceptional case, worked might and main to improve the Panitary condition of Hong Kong since 1901, and left the Colony
on leave fully expecting to return, all my Text Books, all "my drawing instruments; bertipeaks to and in fact all that I should require to follow my calling are still in Hong Kong.
3. That
my
leave was allowed to almost expire before
the slighkst idea was conveyed to me about the abolition of my office as Sanitary Surveyor..
24. I most humbly beg that my request be granted for at the time I left Hong Kong I was entitled to more than 12 months leave,
I have the honour to be Fir
Your Obedient Servant.
Alfred Carter.