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ngkong.

My Lord,

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CP 16 SEP 09

Government House,

Hongkong, 14th. August, 1909.

I have the honour to acknowledge

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the receipt of Your Lordship's Despatch No. 116 of the

30th. of last June in which you inform me that it may not

be possible to accede to Mr. G. A. Woodcock's request to

be allowed to retire on pension and that at the same time

you doubt whether it would be to the good of Queen's

College to transfer him to the post of Second Master, a

matter upon which I have myself had much misgiving.

2.

Your Lordship requests me to

suggest some other arrangement which would be likely to

prove more satisfactory in practice, and after careful

consideration I have come to the conclusion that the best

solution of the difficulty will be to appoint Kr. Woodcock

to be Chief Clerk at the Magistracy on his present salary

and to promote Mr. C. A. D. Melbourne, the present Chief

Clerk, to be Deputy Registrar and Appraiser vice Mr. J. R.

Wood

RIGHT HONOURABLE.

THE MARL OF CREWE

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