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5.
looked up the record of sick-leave and I find that between
the 1st March, 1907 (when he was appointed Harbour Master)
and the 1st February 1911 (when he went on loave) Commander
Taylor had in all ll days' sick-leave, viz:-
2 days in 1908(30.6.08 and 3.11.08).
2 days in 1909 (26th & 27th June, 1909).
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7 days in 1910 (from 22.2.10 to 27.2.10 and 19.5.10).
He has no sick-leave recorded against him during January 1911;
in fact his last sick-leave is dated 5 months before the de-
falcations occurred.
5.
B. Commander Taylor's letter of the 1st June,1911
Commander Taylor details at some longth but not very
accurately in paragraph 5 sqq. of his letter of the 1st June,
1911, the history of the clerical changes in the Harbour Depart-
ment during recent years. I therefore attach a statement show-
ing the clerical staff of that department as it existed when on
the let March 1907 Commander Taylor became Harbour Master,
and the changes made since then. The statement shows that,
omitting the Imports and Exports Office for which Commander
Taylor is no longer responsible, there were seven non-Chinese
clarks in the Department in 1907 and that there are now six
non-Chinese clorks in the department. Moreover, when Commanı-
der Taylor book leave, Mr Molver had not yet been re-transferrod
to the post of Chief Junk Inspector, but was still First Clerk
in the Harbour office. Therefore, at that date there were still,
as in 1907, seven non-Chinese clerke in the Department.
lows that Commander Taylor's general complaint, that his offi-
cient Portuguese clerks were one by one taken away and their
places filled by less efficient Chinese clerks, is not borne out
by the facts.
6.
It fol-
In paragraph 5 Commander Taylor makes special mention of ir
L.G.d'Almada e Castro as one of the efficient clerks removed from
his department. It is, therefore, interesting to note that this
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