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Hon. Colonial Secretary,
Mr. Fooker reported to me on the 1st.
instant that Morris was absent from duty on that day without
leave and that, on making onquiries from other Overseers living
in the same boarding house, he was informed that they had not
seen him since the previous day.
I asked the Captain Superintendent of Police
if he could have some qnquiries made about him and he replied
yesterday that the Police had been looking for him since the
receipt of my minute (1st. or 2nd. instant) but could not find
him until yesterday afternoon (8th. instant) when L.S.Willa
found him in Kennedy Town.
Ho reports that Morris appears to have gone
to Canton on the lat. instant whence he returned last evening
(7th. instant). He told L.S. Wills that he sent in his resigna-
-tion by post to Mr. Tooker on the evening of the 1st. instant
and that he had got another job. He added that he would go to
the Public Works Department this morning (9th. instant) and see
Mr. Fooker and myself if he could.
No communication of any sort has been
received from Morris nor has he come to see either Mr. Tooker
or myself.
9th. December, 1910.
(Sd.) W. Chathan,
D.P.V.