CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902 — Page 519

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into another engagement to do 2 hours further de per day (making 8 hours curly) or hans,

F services to the land force, and if we declined eith of these occupations we were informed by the Cop Superintendent of police that we should be recomme for dismissal, and left to make our wary to Eng and seek our own redress. We thereupon entirel the Service under protest, as we had no celternat pending a reply from England to the commun " forwarded in the matterf.

We were

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willing, and always have been t out our agreement in every detail. We were warned that if the reply from : the Office confirmed our claim the result would to we should either hove to fall into line with the of the police (which is in no way suggested Aguement) or leave the fore,

genrerak police duties could not be altered, nor could be heated differently from the other members of Force, and on the other hand if the reply dis conform our statement we should be formed gu of misrepresenting the facts to the bapter su of police and be severely punishede, thus hel but a threat, that whether we were right or we should still have to continue the ductus lo by them, outside our Agreement which speaks itself is being extremely imjust.

We have the Correspondence in our Supporting all we have written in

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we shall be most thankful of

to greint us an

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you will be pleased official interview, when we feel

assured that we shall be able to establish our claim to be remunerated for the loss of time and Expense incurred through no fault of curs,

We sincerely Aust that

you will be pleased to give this matter your further considerations & we shall be most pleased to wait upon you, when we feel assured, we shall, in a few minutes, be able

explain our

our case better than by lettin We shall be glad still to carry out our port of the Agreement ind

again proved to Hong-Krong and carry out the duties enumuated in our Agrement on receipt of commensurate payment for our loss of time and expenses up to

dated We have the honor to roman,

Your obedient Servants,

Sir

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James W. Wylie Williams J Cook