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officers for that sort of work.

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Dont you think it would be better that the work should

not be done by an Asiatic clerk ?

I am quite willing to admit that the work should be done by a European.

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And you dont see any reason why it should not be done by the Assistant Secretary or Secretary ?

No, I dont sea why it should not be done, provided he has time. Of course, with an Asiatic Staff of clerks, it is almost impossible to keep knowledge from theṇ, unless you keep everything under loak and key, and even then I am not sure that they would not get their own key to fit.

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We are all working under the same sonditions, but in a business office we have a certain check on the

correspondence.

Of course, in a business offics they employ a greater number of Europeans than we do.

Shelton Hooper:-

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For the same amount of work ?

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I dont think any business in this Colony has so small a proportion of Europeans to do their work, as

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the Sanitary Department has, the clerical work anyway. Your Inspectors all count as part of your European staff. A part of your clerical work is done by them. Oh yes.

I dont think there is any office in Hongkong that has 1676

the staff that the Sanitary Department has, for the

small overturn, for the amount it spends. With regard to the Standing Orders, have you anything to add as to what I understood you to say just now, that you considered that they are only part binding,

not absolutely binding at now printed ?

they are

Not absolutely binding, because in some respects they

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