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ALL COMMUNICATIONS

TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE

CROWN AGENTS FOR THE COLONIES.

PRESSING.

CROWN AGENTS

FOR THE

COLONIES

Sir,

Hong Kong

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Rec'd 24 OCT 01

DOWNING STREET, LONDON.

23rd October 1901.

Reg: 1295 Appts.

With reference to your letter of the 29th August last and to your reply No. 30452/1901 of the 6th September

I have the honour to inform you our Consulting Engineer

has recommended to us two further candidates for appointment as Senior Sanitary Inspectors in Hong Kong.

One of these candidates is at present unmarried

but intends to marry shortly. The other is married and

has three children and both stipulate as a condition of

engagement that passages should be granted for their families.

It has been found impossible to get single men

who possess the qualifications required and Mr Osbert

Chadwick considers that as the men he now recommends bear

such excellent characters it would be the worst possible

economy to lose their services merely to save the small

extra expense in passages.

I have therefore to ask for the Secretary of

State's authority to provide the passages required in each

case.

Under Secretary of State

&c.

&c. &c.

Colonial Office.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

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