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HOLLAND LODGE 292
86 ADDISON ROAD? W.
17 July 1912.
I have the honour to approach you on the subject of my position in the Colonial Service, brought about by the treatment I have received since I entered that service, with a view to the reconsideration of the decision come to with regard to my appli- -cation for transfer to some other appointment.
2. The treatment to which I refer is not confined to a single instance, but has been spread over my whole career under the Colonial Office. I propose here to deal with the principal instances in chronological order, so far as possible.
3. I entered the Colonial Service in 1899, after over twenty years in the Royal Navy, receiving the appointment as Assis- -tant Harbour Master, &c:, Hongkong, on July 1, thirteen years ago, and sailing on the 12 August in the same year to take up the ap- -pointment. Although the Colonial Regulations provide for the payment of half salary to an officer newly appointed during the passage out, if such half salary is available, I did not receive any salary at all until my arrival in the Colony on the 22nd Sep- -tember 1899. The half salary was available, my predecessor in the post having left the Colony before the date of my sailing from England, (he resigned the appointment), while the officer who was performing the duties received but half the salary of the acting
In this connection, I may remark that post and half of his own.
I was offered a second class passage only, and paid the difference between that and the first class fare out of my own pocket, while among the other first class passengers in the ship was a boatswain in the Royal Navy, travelling at Admiralty expense.
4. In 1904, I was selected to perform the duties of Assis- -tant Superintendant of Police, in charge of Water Police, in addi-
For this I received the lapsing -tion to those of my own post.
Under Secretary
Colonial Office.
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