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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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