CO129-297 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [1-3] — Page 555

CO P.Y.

Enclosure

RECO

The Honourable Acting Colonial Secretary

C.O.

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EG 10 APR 00

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I submit Memorandum as requested as follows: -

Memorandum shewing necessity for the appointment

of a permanent Translator to the Land Office.

Prior to the taking over of the New Territories the work of translation of Chinese documents ant petitions was done by Mr.Wong, the Land Office Clerk, or when pressing necessity arose with the voluntary assistance of the Court Translator and Interpreters and Notice to Squatters under the Squatters* Ordinance by the kind help of the Registrar General's Department.

2. Since the addition of the New Territories the work has so increased, that I cannot have this assistance to anything like the extent required. There is now more work in the Land Office than one Translator can accomplish and the permanent appointment of a Translator is absolutely essential to the proper working of the office.

(S.)J. W. Norton Kyshe,

Land Officer,

1.3.1900.