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No. 10.
Enclosure.
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General Post Office,
Hongkong, 18th. January, 1901.
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I have the honour to submit two separate
communications received by me, one from a Mr. Francis 8. D.
MMERC. Pereira, of Brighton, Sussex, and the other from a Mr. B. Stell
The Honourable
of Shanghai, on behalf of his brother at present resident in Manchester. Both of these men are Baglish, and are at present I understand employees of the Imperial Post Office in England. They are sozious to go abroad owing to their prospects of advancement in their present employment not being promising.
It has struck me as a favourable opportu- nity to recommend to the Government the advantage to be gained of introducing in the Post Office here a few English sorters as clerks, and I venture to think if a trial could be made with the two applicants it would enable the Government to be in a better position to decide on the desirability of increasing the number of such clerks in the Hongkong Post Office in the future. Such an addition would I feel sure prove to be of great benefit to the locally employed juniors.
The present initial salary of $40 per month, would of course be out of the question to tempt these den to come to Hongkong, and should my recommendation be favourably entertained, I would respectfully bag leave to suggest that a special salary for them might be fixed. And if added to this salary any increase granted by the 3overnment on their obtaining a Certificate in Chinese would be allowed them, I have no doubt that with the batter chances here of obtaining promotion in the Colonial Service generally, these men, it found after enquiry to be satisfactory, night if asked to come out be willing to do
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I have not communicated with either of
then, as I await the result of the decision of the 3overnment an ay suggestion. They would of course have to furnish Certiľi- cates from the Heads of the Post Offices under whom they served and I could also communicate with the boadon Office on the
J. H. Stewart-Lockhart,C..3.
Colonial Secretary."
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