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Clerks of this Department should receive the same rate of salary as other Clerks in the service, and this was approved by His Lordship the Secretary of State.

Should the increase not be given to my office as it has been done in other branches of the service, I most humbly beg to submit that my office will not be on the same footing as they were intended in 1881.

The duties of my office are of a responsible nature and the manner in which I have discharged the duties of the other several offices which I have held in the service, together with the fact of my long and faithful service extending to a period of over sixteen years, will I humbly trust induce your Lordship graciously to grant my prayer by permitting me to receive the same increase of salary as is allowed to other Officers holding similar rank in the service and which I shall ever be grateful to your Lordship.

Your Lordship’s

most obedient humble Servant,

Ng Fak Shing

Head Clerk.

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To Shang Mr My

Magistracy I cannot allow you to leave without expressing to you my entire satisfaction with the way in which you have discharged your duties.

As Hindustani Interpreter, Clerk to The Coroner’s Court, and Clerk to the Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, in each of which capacities you have been directly connected with me, I have invariably found you to be hard working, obliging, intelligent & trustworthy.

I am extremely sorry that the Magistracy and the other Departments to which you belonged under me are losing you, but I hope you will like your new duties, and that they will lead to further promotion.

Amongst your other qualifications, I think I ought to mention that I have found you to be a very careful and accurate accountant.

(Signed) H. E. Wodehouse,

Police Magistrate, Coroner and Superintendent of the Fire Brigade

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14 January, 1888

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Clerks of this Department should receive the same rate of salary as other Clerks in the service, and this was approved by His Lordship the Secretary of State. Should the increase not be given to my office as it has been done in other branches of the service, I most humbly beg to submit that my office will not be on the same footing as they were intended in 1881. The duties of my office are of a responsible nature and the manner in which I have discharged the duties of the other several offices which I have held in the service, together with the fact of my long and faithful service extending to a period of over sixteen years, will I humbly trust induce your Lordship graciously to grant my prayer by permitting me to receive the same increase of salary as is allowed to other Officers holding similar rank in the service and which I shall ever be grateful to your Lordship. Your Lordship’s most obedient humble Servant, Ng Fak Shing Head Clerk. Copy To Shang Mr My Magistracy I cannot allow you to leave without expressing to you my entire satisfaction with the way in which you have discharged your duties. As Hindustani Interpreter, Clerk to The Coroner’s Court, and Clerk to the Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, in each of which capacities you have been directly connected with me, I have invariably found you to be hard working, obliging, intelligent & trustworthy. I am extremely sorry that the Magistracy and the other Departments to which you belonged under me are losing you, but I hope you will like your new duties, and that they will lead to further promotion. Amongst your other qualifications, I think I ought to mention that I have found you to be a very careful and accurate accountant. (Signed) H. E. Wodehouse, Police Magistrate, Coroner and Superintendent of the Fire Brigade Copy Page 71 14 January, 1888
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