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Harbour Department,
Hongkong.
10 April 1920.
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My Lord,
I have the honour to approach you with a view to the
removal of a slur upon my character and record which it is
in the power and also, I believe, it in the duty of the
have authorities concerned to clear. The matter, which I taken up
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upon several previous occasions without succes",
has now
become urgent by reason of the fact that the Chinese Clerk
Chan Pui, for whose crime I was unjustly made to suffer in
1910, has now, after absconding with about $30,000 of Govern-
ment money, been apprehended and brought to trial, and con-
victed, this being the second occasion on which the Colony
has suffered financi: lly from his default. I am the more
insistent on my right to have the matter reopened in view of
my pending immediate retirement from the Colonial service.
The first time, in 1910, the onus of blame was cast upon me,
while he, clever enough to deceive the then Government of
the Colony, not only escaped scot free, but received promo-
tion in the service.
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I have been refused permission to see the papers on
the subject, so am dependent upon my memory, according to
which the history of the earlier affair is this: In 1910
there was a men named Wang Hau Nam who was employed as "shroff"
at the Sailor's Home (a private concern, of which the Harbour
Master is, with official sanction, ex officio Honorary Secret-
ary). This man, in addition to his duties in connection with
the Sailor's Home, was employed officially as shroff to the
Harbour Department, and was, as was then the practice, requi-
red to find security in the sum of $1500, which happened to
be considerably less then the sume which were frequently in
his possession. He had also to find security in respect to
the moneys belonging to the Sailor'e Home which passed through
his hands, but in this case the sum secured was emple,
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