72830/30.
22 July
8.
19
30
Sir.
With reference to your letter of the 19th
June and your interview in the Colonial Office on the
14th July, I am directed by lord rassfield to inform
you that he has received a telegram from the Governor of
Hong Kong asking that the post of dental surgeon may
remain unfilled in view of the appointment locally of a
Committee to investigate the possibility of retrenchment
in various directions on account of the present
unfavourable financial si tuation in the Colony.
Accordingly the secretary of state regrets
that he is obliged to withdraw the offer made to you in
the letter from this Department of the 10th June.
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in due course, however, the Government of Hong Kong
decides to proceed with the appointment, you will be
regarded, whether you may be in this country or
overseas at the time, as having a prior claim to the
offer.
I um to add that the arrangements for study
leave, etc., contemplated when you left the Falkland
Ielands,
J.A. COUTTS, ES4.,L.D.D.,R.C.D.E.