CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6] — Page 475

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Colonial Surgeon

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Government Civil Hospital.

Hong Kong 29th May 18860.

I learned today, firch by public. rumour, then by direct enquiry from

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yourself and elsewhere that applied for five month's leave from proximo; four months' vacation, leave and one month on half frey, that had proposed. Dr Jordan as Head of the Medical Department during your absence; and that the bioting Governor had suctioned bork your leave and Dr. Jordan's appointment. In abstaining from all communication with me on the sulfjich of your intended absence and your proposed arrangement for the work the Department for five months, you may perhaps have been strictly within the letter

of

of the regulations, and by a rigid

and by a rigid interpretation

of the love I might be declared to have nothing to complain of

In the viroumstances, however, and

intimate official

after thirteen years

your

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action is a personal plight to me, and

if your proposed: arrangement.

: arrangement were to take

effect, it would be a public slight in the

eyes of the Colony,

The Colony, and a grievous injury.