CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910 — Page 275

Gov

Re 41341/1909.

I

% Mr Perrin.

73. High Sheet.

Glough.

Backs 268

am in receipt of your

6.

Rece

703

Rrap 7 JAN 10] lehr dakd

3.1.10 with the report from the Governor of Hong Kong

enclosed, with

id to item N 2 in regard

Jour

letter

I deeply regret that Lord Crewe cannot question further the propriety of my retirement from the service of Hong Kong, but I do appeal for the question

of the amount of my pension se reconsidered on the grounds that I cannot obtain

any

other Official appointment.

The brown Agents for the Colonies can hold out no

Wher (32157 hopes, and you state in

Jour of Gctober 5th Last that Lord Crewe cannot hold out much hope that he will be asked to fill vacancies in the Colonial Service, my applications for Municipal appoint ents have been unsuccessful, (reply from the Corporation of London attached).

meeting

nom,

I simply ask that my pension be granted

on the liner proposed by How MC.A. Hewitt at a

of the Legislative Council on the 27.12.09, or something approaching the sum mentioned

By I can prove conclusively that I rendered Services to the Hong Kong Government far in excess of those of Official duties in Hong Kong is well known to the whole of the Community of Hong Kong, I feel sure that you will see how "very hard the regulations governing the abolition of

stated in

this fact

my

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