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Public Works Department,
Hongkong,
July 12th, 1916.
176
To the Hon. Celonial secretary,
Bir,
I beg to draw your attention to a chanzo which, I have heard, has
been or is about to be made in the staff of the Public Works Department
I refer to the promotion of Mr. J. Duneen over the heads of Loveral
Assistant Engineers who are senior to him in Service. Such promotion
appears to be unjust as it ignores the seniority of those affected by
it and deprives them of that promotion which every officer in the ser-
vice looks forward to and has been led to expect as his right, provid-
ed his duties have been satisfactorily discharged, und wigout the hope
of which he would not have entered the cervios of the Government.
This promotion offects me very considerably on secount of my senior-
ity in the staff of Assistant Engineers and I therefore beg to bring to
your notice the matter as it presente itself to me, and respectfully
nak that you will lay this appeal before Hie Excellency the Governor
with a view tê his kind consideration and with a request that he will
be pleased to reconsider his decision which I think must have been
made without a full explanation of the harm that will be dine to me ant
to the other officers concerned.
I cannot imaging why I have been passed over in this mâner but I
think it possible that one or more of the following may hata beon
ndymoed as reasons for such action, and I have here ondertoured to
show reasone why, in my opinion, I should not lose any seniority and *}
thus be debarred from promotion when it should in the ordinary course
of events come to mu.
1. That as I was appointed locally (I was already in the Colony
when I joined the Colonial Service) I am to be treated in à different
manner to other Assistant Engineers.