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AGREEMENT made this 20th day of October,
One thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight,
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WHEREAS SYDNEY
BETWEEN SYDNEY ASHWORTH, of "Elm Hurst,"
Park Road, Newton-le-Willows-
and W. J. B. Bellis-
of 3 Cliff Road, Wallasey-
and John Bellis-
of 68 Perskett Road, Wallasey--
of the one part, and the undersigned on
behalf of the CROWN AGENTS FOR THE COLONIES,
London, for and on behalf of the Government
of Hong Kong of the other part.
ASHWORTH
has been provisionally selected for
appointment as an Assistant Government Marine Surveyor (Engineer)
in the Marine Department of Hong Kong and is required to und ergo, as
a condition of his final selection, a course of training under the
Department of the Board of Trade for a period between twelve and
eighteen months which period may be curtailed at any time at the
option of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and may be paid an allowance at the rate of £460 per annum, and may be refunded
1st class railway fares necessarily incurred in travelling on duty.
NOW the said SYDNEY ASHWORTH and W. J. B. Bellis and John Bellis
in consideration of the premises do hereby agree with the said
undersigned on behalf of the Crown Agents for the Colonies that should
the said SYDNEY ASHWORTH (a) fail to complete satisfactorily the
period of training or be reported on with regard to character or
conduct during training in such terms as would, in the opinion of the
Secretary of State, render it impossible for him to approve of his final selection or (b) having been finally s elected fail to sign
an agreement with the Crown Agents to serve as an Assistant Government Marine Surveyor (Engineer) in the Marine Department of Hong Kong for three years residential service or (c) having signed the agreement
fail/