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COPY.
Chambers
C. O.
10.250
Courts of Justice, Hongkong,
26th. April, 1912.
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Sir,
I have the honour to request that Your Excel- -lency will be good enough to lay my name before the Secretary of State as a candidate for the Chief Judicial Commissionership of the Federated Malay States in the event of a vacancy which I am informed is likely to occur soon.
I attach a record of my services which shows that I nave had seven years service in the Straits Settlements, and fifteen in this Colony, and that I have passed in three dialects of Chinese. I have acted for 9 months as Attorney- -General and for 12 months as Fuisne Judge in Hongkong, and I re-
-ceived the substantive appointment of Puisno Judge in March, 1909. I acted as Chief Justice of the Colony for two months in 1911.
Sir Frederick Lugard was pleased to express
his approval of my services as a Judge in a despatch written short-
1896 12 -ly before his departure, on the subject of the Attorney-General-
-ship: to which perhaps Your Excellency would refer.
Sir Frederick would I believe be willing to
support my application for promotion if reference were made to him for his opinion by the Secretary of State.
I have etc.,
(Sd.) H. H. J. Gompertz,
Puisne Judge.
His Excellency
The Officer Administering the Government,
Hongkong.