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CONFIDENTIA I..

Hongkong.

My Lord,

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Goverment House,

Hongkong, 15th. June, 1906.

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I have the honour to call Your Lordship's

attention to the fact that the period for which Mr.William

Hunter, M.B., C.M. was appointed Bacteriologist in Hongkong,

on the conditions embodied in the correspondence covered by

Mr. Chamberlain's despatch No.410 of the 6th. December,

425 1901, will expire on the 27th. February next and to enclose

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a minute by Dr. F. Clark, Acting Principal Civil Medical

Officer on the subject of the appointment being made per-

manent.

2

The 4th. paragraph of the letter from the

30 Colonial Office to Dr. Hunter, dated the 11th. November,

1901, which formed an enclosure to Mr. Chamberlain's des-

patch above referred to stated that it was possible that

an offer to make the appointment permanent might be made to

Dr. Hunter in the event of his services proving as useful

to

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.

&c.

&C.

&C.