813/21.
K:EB.
Copy.
(1)
Sir,
25th March, 1939.
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1
I am directed to refer to your letter of
16th March, 1939, and to inform you that His Excellency
the Governor has read carefully and sympathetically
your appeal in the matter of your being passed over
for promotion to a superscale post in the Education
Department. His Excellency realizes that it is a
poignant matter for an officer who has always given of
his best to be thus passed over and it was only after
the closest personal consideration on His Excellency's
part that this decision was taken in your case.
2.
His Excellency directs me to add that this
decision does not reflect in any way on your work as
a teacher, but, as you are doubtless aware, the qualities required in a holder of a superscale post transcend the purely technical and it was on that ground that His Excellency agreed reluctantly with the Director of
Education that he could not see his way to recommend you
to the Secretary of State for the Colonies for promotion
to such a post.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
(sd.) N. L. Smith.
Colonial Secretary.
D.M. Richards, Esq., B.A.,
Education Department,
Hong Kong.
(Similar letter sent to Mr. G.W. Reeve.)