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GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
30th, December, 1911.
In view of the extremely short time which
would remain before I left Hongkong if you approve of my
taking leave in March next, and the many important mattekra
which I am anxious to conclude before leaving, I judged it
advisable to inform the senior Un-Official Member of Council
that it was possible that I might leave this Colony early
next year and be transferred to Nigeria. I consented to his
informing his colleagues of the fact under the strictest
seal of secrecy, pointing out that the proposal you had
been pleased to make xxx to me was a private one, and had
not received His Majesty's assent, and was in no way official
or final.
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The information has been kept strictly
confidential, but Hon. Sir P.Chater C.A.G. and Hon. Mr Ros8
called on me this morning and handed me the enclosed letter addressed to you, and requested me to forward it to you,
with any remarks I might see fit to make.
3.
As to the expressions of opinion regarding
myself, and the desire that I should remain here, which the signatories have been so good as to make, I have no comment to offer, but upon their further request that if His Majesty should decide to utilise my services elseghere, Sir H.May should succeed me, you will perhaps desire an expression
of my opinion.
RIGHT HONOURABLE,
L. V. HARCOURT.
&C.,
&c.,
M.P.
&C...
ECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES.
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