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sir,
I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of Colonial
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Office letter, No. 37194/1910, dated 12 December, 1910,
informing me that Mr. E. H. Wilson has not accepted the post of Assistant Superintendent in the Botanical and Forestry Department, Hong Kong, and desiring that the name of a
suitable candidate for the post, on the terms stated in the
paper of conditions enclosed in Colonial Office letter, No. 28880/1910, dated 14 October, 1910, be recommended.
2. In reply I beg to submit the name of Mr. Harold Green, aged 24, a temporary Technical Assistant in the Herbarium
attached to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Mr. Green, who
was educated at Queen Mary's Grammar School, Basingstoke,
received his early technical training in good nurseries.
He entered Kew as a young gardener in December, 1907, was
promoted to the grade of subforeman in November, 1909, and
has now been selected for special service in the Herbarium. He is a young man of excellent manners and address, who has while at Kew proved himself to be a competent gardener and a trustworthy and reliable subforeman. His attention and diligen- ce, coupled with his excellent early education, have enabled him to take a high place in the various classes he has here attended and have led to his profiting to a quite unusual extent by the opportunities of experience and instruction which Kew affords. I am therefore able to recommend Mr. Green
e Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office,
Downing Street,
S. W.