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avail unpeelf of the vacation leave of
fair manchs
ww
full pay.
The existing Colonial Regulations,
as Your Excellency
Excellency is aware, permit
of my going
home
ar
this vacation leave.
and, had the Governor's approval been
first obtained, combining with it such further leave of absence
do
arry
F
service
ow
half Salary
may justify. cognizant, however, of Your
Excellency's objection to this combination
of leave inasmuch as no Salary being disposable for four months, a difficully
filling up the acting appoint- ment, and I do not therefore apply
ecours in
for it.
Your Excellency would not, I
Nide & 134.
believe, object to
my laking the vacation leave for the purpose of recruiting my
heatch
bit
wver e
and
for relaxation from business
I to do
and return to
Hongkong at its expiration I should then have completed the required six years' suvice, and be in a position to apply for the ordinary leave of abounce on half Salary. Thus all the inconvenience foreseen by Your Excellency from the combination of leave
as
arising
bination of leave would be
practically entailed.
The arduous work I have.
gone
through during the last
year, and the weak state in which I now find myself render it imperative for to have a temporary release from my
me
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