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Your Excellency,
ENCLO
RB (2) 95
18±k Bank Buildings.
HONGKONG
10th, January,
C O 1932
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I trust that Your Excellency will, in consideration of the work I have been happy to do for the Government since I have been in the Colony, permit me to
enlist your kind interest in my favour. Ever since the
death of my father Sir Chaloner Alabaster who in the
Consular service had spent his life under Government I have
had leanings towards an official in preference to a profes-
sional career. Accordingly when I was called to the Bar I
applied to the Secretary of State for an appointment of a
legal nature and since then I have from time to time brought
the particulars of my career up to date and renewed my
application. I belševe that my candidature for such
appointments has hitherto lacked three desirable features,
experience in legal practice, experiance in Government
service and necessarily the absence of the support of those
familiar with my work. But I know now that I have gained
by some eight years active practice at the Bar and nine
months service as acting Attorney General of this Colony
the first two of the desiderata and I trust that I have
not misconstrued the letter conveying the thanks of the
Government, which I received last week, into a belief that
I have in a measure also gained the last. May I therefore regard the expressions conveyed in that letter as an inti- mation that Your Excellency will support any renewed appli- cation I may make to the Secretary of State. I am anxious to get an Attorney Generalship or failing that a Pulse- Judgeship in any of the three Eastern Colonies or the
b. the Governor.
HONGKONG.
King's