CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882 — Page 244

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

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Clark

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betler cha

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of

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adva ncement in

in

the

matter.

ix

botanical career.

3.

The selection

of.

a n assistant to an

4.

DV? Clark es

Scotch man,

and

officer like m2 Ford who has long been

unrnarried. Dr

Tremen reports that

the sole working head of his Department

30772 care -

after considering

the

requires

matter Sir Joseph Hooker believes

he is most willing and obleging" and

practically

a

tee totaller. He has had a

that

the curcumstances

of

the

case will

be

best met by appointing Mr D. G.

Clark head gardener

sound horticultural training in every

branch of gardening including

the

management of fruit-trees, and these

more useful

in the service of

would probably

be

acquirements in the climate of Hong-

the Royal Botanical Gardens Ceylon.

The

e moluments of the two posts.

-practically the same.

are

But the status

of the Hong-Hong appointment as

assistant to the Superintendent is

distinctly beṭṭer and will give Mr.

Clark

Kong than at Peradeniya.

5.

Ser

70.0

If 14 clark accepts the appointment.

Joseph Hooker believes he will find

difficulty in selceting another

man

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