CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4] — Page 396

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Goverment House

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Hongkong, 13th. March, 1903.

With reference to your Despatch No. 427

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of the 19th. December, 1901, and to my Despatch No. 489 of Or

the 7th. November last, under cover of which I transmitted to

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you copies of the General Orders issued by this Government, 02

I have the honour to request authority to make certain alter- ations in Rule No. 39, which deals with posts in the Sub-

Department of Interpretation.

2.

It is desirable that the so-called Clerk

and Interpreter in the Public Works Department and the Cor- respondence Clerk, Sanitary Board, should be removed from the

scheme,

as their duties do not to any appreciable extent in-

clude interpretation.

3.

I have also to recommend that the Interpre-

tation posts under the Sanitary Department be increased by

the addition of five Interpreters to the Senior Inspectors of

Nuisances, making a total of seventeen. These Interpreters

were by an omission in the Sanitary Department not included

in the 1903 Estimates. They are being paid during the current

year out of lapsing salaries.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,

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I have the honour to be, Sir,

Your most obedient

Humble servant,

Henry A. abe

Governor, &C..