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greivance before him in the most respectful

terms.

as

We beg most respectfully to point out to Your Lordship that the Honourable the Treasurer admits that we have satisfactorily performed our duties in the past. Since we have ful- filled our duties satisfactorily hitherto "was acknowledged by the Honourable Trea- surer we humbly seebiit that it is hardly likely that we cannot continue to fulfil

"duties satisfactorily if

fromoted posts, seeing that we have al

to the new

ence in the

wor

we aIN

ready gained very considerable experi-

I done in the depart ment, and for that reason we make say that there is nothing in the work to be done by Mews" Cunha and

bold to

Remedios that

quite

C

we are not able to do

gentlemen.

yea

cars

in

corirse

as well as these We have been all some the service of the Government. We all enter ed it expecting promotion in regular. and on,

• ultimately to be entered on pensions in proportion to the salary earned by

our latest promotion. It is most dis ing to us and to all Chinese and others

· gelling English education and

who are

av

discourag.

trying to qualify for public employment, to find that men are

brought in from

outside and put into offices. capable of filling and

we are

quite for which we have

been qualifying in the junor posts,

our heads.

We

We bey that we

may at least have the chance of a trial by being promoted proba- tionally for some time. If the result shows that

we are incompetent, then

CallAR

we will have no

for complaint, but we have good hopes

that the result will be in our

"We would respectfully submit that

submit the ching appointments to Government posts, generally, if not a always, preference

in ma

s given to Government servants rather than to outsiders; how much more

in the same

we aA C

already working

when

Department, in the hope of being promoted

Out

opportunity offers, and feeling.

naturally

much discouraged at the disappointment of these hopes.

blo

We crave Your Lordship's permission for us to point out that the last three of have already suffered

of

once

ere not

before. being promoted, through the transferenc

Lo Cheung shice from the Victoria College to the fourth Clerkship in the Treasury. thus stopping the departmental promotion naturally looked for by

lime

es at that

Under these circumstances we wost-

humbly pray that Your Lordship well

take our case into

your gracious con- sideration and remove from our minds the feeling of discourageme 14 and disappoint

ment under which we labour.

We have

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