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stipulation made up to the present
that an Educational Officer in Hong Hong
must remain unmarried for the first
four years of his service.
(In this connection I should
inform you that the legality of such a
stipulation is open to question. A
pro viso of this nature appearing in an
Agreement with a private employer
would be void in law, and I am advised
that if an officer who married after
signing a contract, the terms of which
involved his remaining single, it would
not be possible to defend his being
di smi ssed solely on that account. In
any case, after careful consideration of
a similar problem in connection with
appointments in the Educational
Department in the straits Settlements
and the Federated Malay States, I have
decided that I cannot impose an absolute
bar of this character, as, apart from
any question of legality, I regard such
a
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