CO129-131 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [6-7] — Page 310

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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if arrangement any thing so in- - formal can be called but I have

decided objections either to undertaking the full duties, ther labours and responsibilities of a paid past Office Algon't, or of permilling any Officer in the establishment to do so. Thove

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doubt as to its interfering. seriously with the efficient dis-

charze of Consular duties proper. When in charge of Her Majesty's Consulate at Shanghai, I with the previously obtained full- accord and Sanation of the late Six Frederick Bruce, entirely dis-

connected that establishment from

on the Assistant

Post Office he siness, who had had charge of it, being.

Thread, -promoted or removed. Thuel, before.

that

never been able to tell when I

could count on the services of that Assistant for the transaction of Consuler work; practically indeed, Shad to arrange for the perform -

- ance of that work by the other Subordinates without his aid;

and, I may add, had been -constantly assailed by complaints of the Merchants as to the verg inefficient way in which the Post Office duties

disaharged, Here, where there is only one Assistant it frequently happens that his services

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