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Enclosure!

y Lord,

C.O.

40016 494

M2 NO. 08

Government louse,

Hongkong, 1st.October, 1908.

I have the honour to transmit for

Your Lordship's favourable consideration the enclosed copy

of a letter from r. H. IT J. Gompertz, First Tolice

Magistrate, at present acting as Fulsue Judge, applying

for promotion in the legal branch of the Civil Service

either in the Tastern Colonies or in the West Indies.

I

Enclosure 2. Enclosures 374.

attach the usual printed form of application for promotion

in duplicate and enclose copies of letters in support of

this application from the Chief Justice and the Tolonial

Secretary in whose recomendation, so far as rg limited

opportunities of forming an opinion extend, I fully coreur.

عمال

I have the honour to be,

1 Lord,

Your Lordship's most obedient,

huble servant,

Hangar 2

Governor,&C..

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE TARL OF CRP3,

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