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desire to return to Hong Kong and requesting
that you might be recommended for some post
at home you were accordingly supplied with a
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certificate o1 service in the Colony. Subsequently
you intimated your desire to return to the Colony
but under the Military Service Act you have now
2.1
been required to serve again in the Army, swart the
States
Denoidere
Governor that although strictly speaking you
must be regarded as having resigned in February
last your appointment in the Colonial service,
he is willing to reinstate you at the end of
the war in the post which you formerly held
and to allow your pensionable service to date
from the date of your original engagement under
the Hong Kong Government but that he is unwilling to
continue any allowance to you from Hong Kong Government
funds between the date of your resignation from the
Colonial service in February last and the date upon
which you may ultimately embark to return to take up
your appointment under the Hong Kong Government.
3. I am to request you to state
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I
whether
you
i am
wish to avail yourself
of the offer of re-employment on the terms specified by the Gov. of Hongkong.
(Signed) G. GRINDIN
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Vol. 4
Hongkong
HONG KONG
REC
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REG 5 SEP 16
Gov. Sir F.1
May Conf
1916
25th July
Last previous Paper.
10.
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Copy to 7.0. Conf. 1.7. 7th Sept 1916,
Situation in
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R. 7 SEP.
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