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The Director of Public Works.
sir,
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Public Works Department,
Hong Kong 14th. April, 1915.
I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter
No.259 dated 1st. April, 1915 in which you informed me that,
in reply to my petition dated 2nd. November, 1914,
I had been promoted to the rank of 1st. Grade Land
Bailiff and I take this oppertunity of expressing my thanks
and gratitude to the Government for its kind consideration, but, at the same time, with all due deference to the Government
I respectfully submit that no distinction should be made between Mr. Dillon and me with regard to the date on which the
promotion should take effect, for the following reasons:-
(1) In 1906 before the 1st. Glass Overseers were promoted, on
account of the enhance cost of living prevailing in the Colony, we, the Land Bailiffe, enjoyed exactly the samƏ privileges as they, but although the cost of living affected us equally with them we received no corresponding promotion and the consequence was that they became a clàss
apart from the Bailiffa.
(2) In February, 1911 when I applied to be put on the same
footing as these overseers my application was not actually for a rise of salary but in the form of a protest against our lost status and seniority in the Government service and the consquent detriment wrought to our personal
intereste.
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