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received just treatment in the matter, I humbly submit this
letter to Your Excellency with a request for Your Excellency's
kind consideration of the facts
...
1 feel somehow that I
have suffered undeserved loss, either by injustice or error
I am left heavyhearted and very discouraged in view of my
meritorious services of over 33 years under the Hongkong
Government.
I therefore humbly request that Your Excellency
will kindly have my case reviewed, and that the reasons, if
any, for my loss of promotion be made clear to me";
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10. That it will be observed that both in Your petitioner's
appeal to the Honourable Colonial Secretary and his petition
to His Excellency the Governor, he requested that he be informed
as to the reasons why he had been passed over for promotion,
but this request was refused, and in the Honourable Colonial
Secretary's letter, in reply/his petition to His Excellency
the Governor, he was informed that - "the grounds on which the
Subordinate Staff Committee makes its recommendations when
vacancies occur and the reasons why such recommendations are
approved or disapproved by the Government cannot be disclosed
to the officers concerned, being based on an examination of
confidential reports and other documents". Further, he was
informed - "His Excellency sees no reason to override the considered recommendations of his advisers in the present case";
11. That Your petitioner understands that the His Excellency's advisers here referred to were this Subordinate Staff Committee,
a body consisting of four members under the chairmanship of
Mr. William James Carrie ;
12. That his letters were not written as an ordinary appeal against being passed over for promotion, but were submitted
(with confidence in his own ability and, therefore, in the favourableness of his annual confidential reports) as protests
against what (in the absence of any information as to the