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% Mr Perrin

73. High Street.

Slough.

Bucks.

(

IREC

(RcG2 4 NOV 09

D. 35252, 1909.

3. 11.09.

Fir

' am in receipt of your letter of yesterdays

date and

deply regret that

my

Leave

of

absence from Hong Kong cannot be extended

until the end of the present year.

The whole matter is extremely unsatisfactory to myself and my compulsary retirement on pension cannot be approved without causing a very great

injustice, I consider that I am entitled "to better

treatment.

The Hon M2 Dewett stated at a meeting Board held on

of the Sanitary Tuesday August 3/t last,

"It seemed extraordinary that the Retrenchment Committer, which after all, endorsed the views expressed by the Public bealth Commission, should have recommended the compulsory retirement

best man they had, and that men

of

the

very

whom the Commission récommended should be

dismissed as soon as possible should be retained with out

any

reason at all.

If one man could be pensioned off twenty

men could be pensioned off.

#

I still respectfully suggest that I am entitled to an answer to this important matter from the Hong Kong Government, the whole matter points to a very

injustice to myself.

deeply regret having to trouble

you

serious

so much but

I feel sure that you can understand the seriousners