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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
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of your letter No.13520/1914 of 20th June 1914 in
acknowledgment of my letter of 18th June 1914, in which
I pointed out that the Secretary of State's purely
personal conditions for the further increase had been
more than fulfilled, So far I have been given no valid
reason why these personal conditions laid down by the
Secretary of State and more than fulfilled on my part
are now being withheld, and I would most respectfully
observe that I am surely entitled to know what change of
a personal nature has occurred to justify the non-fulfill-
ment of the promise nade. If my interpretation of the
true meaning which it held out was wrong, I now beg to
enquire what other meaning I should have attached to the
Secretary of State's conditions in the case, sinoe he $
distinctly refused to consider my case, in relation to
the "post" which I occupied, but considered it only on
"personal" grounds? His Excellenoy Sir Henry May, as
I have already pointed out, made the mistake (doubtless
in the press of business) of dealing with the case on "post"
and not "personal" grounis, so that the acceptance of Sir
Henry May's recommendation, if based on that, would be a
nullifying of the decisions of both the then Governor,
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