:
Chamber,
Courts of Justice, Hongkong,
20th July, 1914.
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gir,
I have the honour to request that Your
Excellency will be good enough to lay my name before the
Secretary of State as a candidate for promotion in the
judicial line.
I understand that the Chief Justiceships of
British Guiana and of the Straits Settlements are now
available and that there may be other vecancies. My
record shows that I have been on the Bench continuously for
six and a half years and that I had previously acted for
nine months as Attorney General of this Colony. I have
fifteen years standing at the English Bar. I need not say
that I shall be most grateful to Your Excellency for any
recognition of my claims that Your Excellency may feel able
to accord me.
His Excellency
Sir Henry May, K.C.M.G.,
Governor of Hongkong.
I have, etc.
Sd.
H. H. J. Gompertz
Acting Chief Justice.