ME GAA
T
sir,
Copy.
Sanitary Board Office,
Hongkong 21st December, 1916.
490
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter of the 20ti. December in which you inform me that His
Excellency the Governor has suspended me from the exercise of
my office and is recommending to the Secretary of State for my
dismissal from the public service.
I propose to address a memorial to the Secretary of
State, and I would ask that it may be forwarded with the des
patch in which His Excellency refers the matter.
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I would however enquire in the first instance whether
His Excellency the Governor can see his way to allow me to
volunteer for active service with the army, granting my wife
half my pay for her maintenance during the period of my mili-
tary service with the condition that the question of my sus-
pension may be held over until the end of the war, for further
consideration then. I may refer to my letter of the 20th Kay
last, in which I volunteered for military service.
THE HONOURABLE,
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY.
I have the honour to be,
sir,
Your obedient servant
(ad) W. Bowen-Rowlands
Secretary.
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