CO129-297 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [1-3] — Page 605

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COPY.

No.2083.

Enclosure 4

C.0. 602 11874

7660

Eat TC APR 00

Colonial Secretary's office,

Hongkong; 30th. November, 1899.

Sir,

I am directed by the Governor in accor

dance with Colonial Regulation No.84 to inform you that the

following charges have been made against you in your capacity

of Superintendent of the Registration Branch of the General

Post Office and to request you to furnish me with the grounds

on which you rely to exculpate yourself on or before the 7th.

proximo.

The charges are:

(1.) That you,whilst the French Mail was being dealt

With on Sunday the 5th. instant, left the Office along with

the Deputy Superintendent at 1.05 P.M. thereby neglecting your work of Superintending the Registration Branch, leaving

eight clerks at work six of whom remained from two to two and

a half hours later.

(2.) That, on the 6th.instant, you disobeyed orders

in not having had parcels packed up that had been received

that day and there were sufficient to fill eix boxes; and

(3.) That you did not have two boxes of Insured Parcels

locked into the parcel room as directed in orders signed by

A. BARRON, ESQ.

you