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RECEIVED
3-FEB 1930
10OL. OFFICE
3
GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
HONGKONG, 3rd January, 1930.
My Lord,
1.
I have the honour to request Your Lordship's sanction to make an ex gratia allowance of $20 per month from
charitable funds to Mr. Sun Yee Mau, Teacher of Chinese. The amount would be payable from Head 35 Charitable Services, Sub-Head 2 Other Charitable Allowances on which funds are
available.
2.
Mr. Sun has been unofficially connected with this Government for the past fifty years in the capacity of teacher of colloquial and written Chinese to Hong Kong Cadets. As long ago as 1880 he taught the late Sir Henry May (then Mr. May) who subsequently became Governor of the Colony. He prepared at that time a version in Cantonese of a work which has since been the standard text-book for the study of the colloquial language, and a large number of past and present Cadet Officers have since been grounded by him in the language. In the intervals of teaching he has had little opportunity to earn money by engaging in other occupations, and he is now over seventy and past work, and he is unable to support himself in comfort without his earnings as a teacher.
3.
Though he has thus fallen on evil days, he has himself made no application to Government for this allowance;
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LORD PASSFIELD,
&C.,
&C.,
&C.
but
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