Jonclosure 1.
31A POKFOOLUM ROAD,
223
Hongkong, February 20, 1911.
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SECRETARY OF STATE.
Honourable SIR,
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I BEG TO BRING THE FOLLOWING PERSONAL AND ALSO WHAT I THINK TO
BE A GRAVE PUBLIC GREVIANCE BEFORE YOU, AND TRUST THAT BUGH SHALL RECEIVE
YOUR CONSIDERATION.
(1) ON APRIL 1st, 1909, I JOINED THE P. W. D. (BUILDING ORDINANCE BRANCH, AS BUILDING OVERSEEN).
ON JUNE IST, 1910, I WAS SENT TO TAKE CHARGE #F THE NEW POST OFFICE, OWING TO THE RESIGNATION OF MR. LONGSTAFF. AFTER BEING IN CHARGE, I WAS INFORMED THAT I WOULD ALSO HAVE TO SUPERVISE THE NEW LAW COURTH, EWING TO THE ABSENCE OF MR. THOMAS ON LEAVE, WHICH I DID,
AND FREQUENTLY WORKED BOTH SATURDAY AFTERNOONS AND SUNDAYS, THIS BEING NECESSARY FOR THE PREPARING OF CENTERING FOR INNEN DOME, WHICH WAS TOO COMPLICATED FOR THE CHINESE TO CARRY OUT ALONE. I ALSO AT ALL TIMES SUPERVISED THE MIXING OF CONCRETE AND PLACING SAME IN POSITION FOR THE FORMATION OF SUCH INNER DOME OR CEILING. UNDER DIFFERENT BECTIONS OF GENERAL ORDERS, I APPLIED THROUGH M. FISHER TO the Hon. D. P. W. THAT I BE GRANTED ONE-HALF or MR. THOMAS' SALARY WITH ONE-HALF OF MY OWN, WHICH MR. FISHER KINDLY RECOMMENDED, BUT WHICH THE HOR.
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D. P. W. WOULD NOT COUNTENANCE; THEREFORE, I APPEAL TO YOU FOR JUSTICE.
MR. LONGSTAFF'S SALARY, WHICH
MK SALARY WAS b 210 PER ANNUM.
IS ENTIRELY SAVED TO THE GOVERNMENT, WAS £255 PER ANNUM. MR. THOMAS' SALARY IS £390 PER ANNUM, HALF OF WHICH I CONSIDER IN ALL FAIRNESS SHOULD BE PAID TO ME AS PER GENERAL ORDERS.
(2) OWING TO THE OVERBEARING AND UNFAIR TREATMENT I RECEIVED FROM MM. J. L. PERKINS, INFORMED THE HON. D. P. W. THAT I WOULD PREFER TO
RESIGN, TO WHICH THE HON. D. P. W. REPLIED: "AS YOU PLEASE. N
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MY RESIGNATION TO MR. PERKINS ASKING IF I COULD LEASE FORTHWITH AND
ME STATED "YES." Later, I FORWARDED A LETTER TO THE HON. D. P. W.