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letter to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. a copy of which is attached. It was on this understanding I took service with the Hong Kong government.
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A pension for service with the latter gomenment has been awarded to me but the Governor of Stong Kong having
made the statement, that
tas due
my
retirement
partly to my own fault, Mi
Harcourt reduced the pension 10 per
cent. I was astounded to hear this, and
I deny emphatically that it was
partly my
fault but was the
result of over 30 years
hard work, and
that at Hongkong was
particularly
servere, when I was in sole charge
of the mail work for many years, without assistance whatever.
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And this at the second port in the
world.
Might I be permitted to point out. that while at Hongsong I was never called upon for any explanation, written of otherwise on the subject