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My Dear Huxham,
Many thanks for your letter of the 5th inst. I am sorry I have been so long replying but I was away on tour and have only just returned to Simla.
I presume that you expected me to write to you and not
In any direct to Caine, but if I am wrong please let me know. event let me take this opportunity of thanking you warmly for your services as an honorary intermediary I was going to say
procurer!
The suggestion naturally interests me, but the Government of India have a claim on me until December of next year, and would like me to stay longer. As I am rather heavily engaged in putting into operation the very extensive legislative changes just introduced, it is not easy for me to get away. However, I am discussing certain proposals which might solve the difficulty and night prove acceptable to the Hong Kong Government if they are prepared to wait two or three weeks for these proposals to take shape. My pay in India is £2,700 a year, but I would only agree to an extension at a higher pay. Whether or not the se figures would preclude my taking a job for a term of years with the Hong Kong Government, in any event I would not want to do more than investigate, report, draw up a shceme with draft Ordinance, draft Rules etc., and start the show going. I would not want to run the Department after that, and I have no doubt that a very good man could be brought out from home for that
purpose more cheaply.
Will you let Caine know the position as I have outlined it, and let me know whether I should write to you or to him with
concrete proposals in due course?
Again, many thanks for your good offices.
H.J. Huxham, Esq.,
The Financial Secretary,
Ceylon Government,
Colombo,
Ceylon.
Yours sincerely,
(Sag: S.P. Chambers.