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C/o. Westminster Bank, Ltd.,
Chancery Lane Branch,
Southampton Buildings,
LONDON. W.C.2.
14th August 1931.
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RECEIVED
REFERENCE 82778/31.
15 AUG 1931 COL. OFFICE
Sir,
With reference to the assessment of my pension
for Hong Kong Service in the P.W.D., I note that no provision
has been made for my twelve years service in "an unhealthy
climate".
With reference to this matter, I would state the
following facts for consideration:-
1.
Un account of this twelve years service at the
commencement of my career, I was driven, owing to fever
and dysentery contracted on out-of-door P.W.D. duties
in a tropical climate, to effect at all costs a transfer
to the Home Service, with the result that
2. I was obliged to relinquish the profession in
which I had been trained at considerable expense
-
and
to lose the valuable experience I had gained as a Civil
Engineer in a rapidly developing colony and to take (with
a view to maintaining continuous Imperial Service) an
appointment in the "Surveyor Class" in the Lord Chancellor's
Sub. Department for the Registration of Land. Under this
class of work, my scope of advancement has naturally
much curtailed and has affected the whole of my career.
3. Upon application for transfer in 1900, I was
offered promotion by the Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain to
the post of Executive Engineer in Hong Kong, which, for
been
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