CO129-346 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [1-3] — Page 276

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Supreme Court, Hongkong,

28th February, 1908.

During my service in Mauritius I applied on different occasions to be appointed to a Governorchip. The applications were unsuccessful, the last despatch on the subject being a definite refuard. At an interview that I had with the Right Honourable Alfred Lyttleton, when Secretary of State for the Colonies, while I was in London in 1904, the refusal was put into the modified form that I could not look for such an appointment "for the present".

I submit with respect that I may now repeat my application, which I hereby do, and beg that it may at length receive the Secretary of State's favourable concideration.

2. I shall not repeat the statements of services which were contained in ny previous applications; I chall content myself with saying that I rest my application on the very large amount of executive and administrative work which I did while I was Procureur Genoral of Mauritius: which lay outside the duties of that office. Much of it was financial: I am not I believe saying too much, that the

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work accomplished in connexion with the Planters Loans averted a very serious financial catastrophe which would have been calamitous not to the Planters alone, but to the Government and the Colony generally

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3. The administrative work to which I refer wuE independent of the legislative legal work specially apper-

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taining to my office. Of this there was a great quantity, The Right Honourable

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