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with officers originally appointed as Cadets for any post for
which your qualifications render you suitable". My position
will have reverted to that indicated when I was informed"your
status is not that of a Cadet Officer, and consequently you
have no claim to any Cadet Officer's appointment other than
that which you at present hold". (page 6.)
In conclusion I respectfully beg that my clains
to the appointments of Colonial Treasurer, Registrar General
and First Magistrate may be recognized; and if it is consider-
ed necessary that I should have further experience of the
working of these Departments, that I may be given opportunities
of acquiring it.
I attach a diagram shewing the length of ser-
vice after which the Hong Kong Cadet Officers senior to me
obtained first class appointments; also the comparative lengths
of service of Messrs Messer, Hallifax and myself.
I regret deeply that I have been compelled to
trouble Your Lordship with so detailed a statement, and truat
that the necessity, by which I have felt constrained, of quoting
in every case the authority for my statements, may be accepted
as an excuse for the length of this memorial.
I have the honour to be,
Your Lordship's most obedient humble servant,
Boardth loving
Director of Education.