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Mr.

Mr.

Mr.

Mr. E. J. Harding.

Sir C. Strachey.

Sir J. Shuckburgh.

Sir G. Grindle.

Sir C. Davis.

Sir S. Wilson.

Mr. Ormsby-Gore.

Earl of Clarendon.

Mr. Amery.

DRAFT.

(4)

A marked tendency to marry at

an earlier age than used to be the case

before the war, which has no doubt increased

the deterrent effect of the stipulation

made up to the present that an Educational

Orficer in Hong Kong 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. Whether

actual exception could be take to proviso

of this nature appearing in an Agreement is

with a private coploger would be void

Perheps doubtful, but I am advised that

in laut

ute such a stipulation would be

if enforce

Hawks

andan

an officer who

impossible the enforce, and

married after signing a contract, the terms

of which involved his remaining single,

would not be possible to defend his

could not be dismissed on that account.

dermined solely

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being

In any case after careful consideration of

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