CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910 — Page 292

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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of yesterdays date is the pist communication which has held out any hopes, at the same time I venture to ask whether the efforts which are being taken on my behalf

are directed towards obtaining

further employment for me in London or in one of the Colonies, I ask this question so that if it is in London I could then My to disprose

the Colonial Gutfits which I obtained ready

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for future service in Hong Kong, I feel sure that you will appreciate the grounds for my request.

Sir Francis Hopwood can rest assured that I will do my utmost to give ratisfaction in

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be appointed and would fully appreciate his kindness, I have always found that a kindress is doubly appreciated when one is down, especially when one goes down in a just cause. Hong Kong may yet need a carcientious waker and the Secretary of

may yet realize that the confirmation of my retirement of and from Hong Kong is a very great blow to the Sanitary davancement of that Colony and one that has shaken the confidence of the Chinese people in English fairness, Imagine for one moment the statement made by the Iron chil. a. Murett Chairman of the Public Health Commission being allowed to до unanswered especially when the Chinese people know it to be only too true.

M2 Hewitt staked that it seemed extraordinary that the best man they had should be retrid and that men whom the

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