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HONG KONG

Gov/18666

498

DRAFT.

No 16 0.A.C.

164

R.E.S. 5/6

Mr Johnson

7th June 1902.

Sir,

6 Jun

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No 133 of the 8th of April and to transmit to you the original Agreements of Constables Cook and Wylie.

2. These Agreements do not contain any reference to "Water Police" but it is clear from their previous correspondence with the C.A. that Messrs Cook and Wylie understood that they were engaged solely for service as Water Police and must therefore be held to have agreed to serve as Water Police only, performing not more than six hours duty a day.

3. In these circumstances I am willing to approve the proposal that their Agreements should be cancelled and they should be sent back to England.

4. With regard to paragraph 6 of your despatch I have to point out that it does not appear that copies of the "Conditions of Service" ...

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HONG KONG Gov/18666 498 DRAFT. No 16 0.A.C. 164 R.E.S. 5/6 Mr Johnson 7th June 1902. Sir, 6 Jun I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No 133 of the 8th of April and to transmit to you the original Agreements of Constables Cook and Wylie. 2. These Agreements do not contain any reference to "Water Police" but it is clear from their previous correspondence with the C.A. that Messrs Cook and Wylie understood that they were engaged solely for service as Water Police and must therefore be held to have agreed to serve as Water Police only, performing not more than six hours duty a day. 3. In these circumstances I am willing to approve the proposal that their Agreements should be cancelled and they should be sent back to England. 4. With regard to paragraph 6 of your despatch I have to point out that it does not appear that copies of the "Conditions of Service" ... Page 1
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HONG KONG

Gov/18666

498

DRAFT.

g Kong

No

16 0.A.C.

164

R.E.S. 5/6

Mr Johnson

.ச

Ciky comen Ca. {F

དེམ་་པ་ན།༼

7.

June

sir,

6 Jun

June 1902.

I have the honour to ack the receipt of

your despatch No 133 of the 8 th of April and

to transmit to you the original Agreements of

Constables Cook and Wylie.

2. These Agreements do not contain any refer-

ence to "Water Police" but it is clear from

their previous correspondence with the C.A.

that Messrs Cook and Wylie understood that

with they were engaged solely for service-a-Water

they must therefore Police and dad ddly be held to have agreed to

serve as Water Police only, performing not

more than six hours duty a day.

3. In these circumstances I am willing to

approve the proposal that their Agreements

should be cancelled and they should be sent

back to England.

4. With regard to paragraph 6 of your despatch

I have to point out that it does not appear

that copies of the "Enditions of Service"

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