CO129-364 - Public Offices & Others - 1909 — Page 211

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RF 32/57 1909.

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209

J Mr Perrin.

Hough... Bucks.

33092 7p. High Strut.

RECO Page 7 f 00

6.10.

09.

trg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterdays date and in reply therets I beg to ask that the request in my letter of September 28th be considered namely that I be informed under what conditions Officer in my present position can have his case made public, the case cannot rest in its present form with out causing not only a

very

serious injustice but

an

A

grave

ocandel.

a" Commission called The Public Health & Buildings Ordinance Commission sat for 10 months in Hong Kong and reported in 1907, clause N-11 in that report reads:-

"We were forced to the conclusion that not only great irregularities but corruption and Bribery urre rampant in the Sanitary Department.

member

of

The Chairman of that Commission and another prominent

that Commission publicly staked that an Officer is bring removed who not only assisted that Commission against whom not the slightest charge

pa

of any kind was brought whilst others who are under the gravest suspicion are retained, there is not the slightest doubt that the whole

commission are

the members

of

of bitterly opposed to my compulsory

retirement on pension.

that

I again beg that the whole matter be referred back & Hong Kong for reconsider añ'on.

I duply regret having to trouble you

so much in

this matter but the result is scrious indeed to me.