Supt. Accounts and Stores,
I beg most respectfully to request that you will be
kind enough to put my case up to Hon. D.P.W. for recommendation
to the Government for promotion by special consideration.
In support of my application I have the honour to lay
the following for your favourable consideration:-
1.
By comparison of 1920 and 1930 Civil Service Lists it
could be observed that I have been superseded by some of the
juniors since 1920; which I believe would either be due to an
oversight or my appointment being in a small department (i.e.
Royal Observatory) for a considerable period and not considered
so important as that of the others in other departments. Not-
withstanding I have been called upon to perform the duties of
Senior European Officers during the Great War as well as now and
then thereafter in that department without any extra remuneration
or consideration of promotion for 14 years for extra service done
there.
2.
Since the death of the late Mr. Cheng Cheuk Hin (the
Senior Clerk of this department) in 1929 much more has been added
to my work as well as that to the responsibility, which binds me
to work even overtime to cope with the work without any request
for extra remuneration but with hope of special consideration.
3.
Since my transfer to this department in 1927, I have
been directly working under you up to this date, so my work as
well as competency of working is not a secret to you, and hardly
require a repetition here.
4.
I am the only worker out of my family of 8 persons, and
most of them being children, who are pursuing their studies in
various schools, my pecuniary matters are now hand to mouth only
and which may develop into dilapidation at any moment without the
consideration requested.
5.
Moreover with due reference to progress of my previous
promotion once after 14 years, I can foresee nothing to help or