CO129-378 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [6-7] — Page 262

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On the 26th. May, 1911, P. Law left the office without permission at about 3 p.m. and did not return that day. was considerably before 4 o'clock. I sent the office coolie to his house to find out why he had gone and to bring him back to explain; but the office coolie returned

and said that Law was not at his house and he could not

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On the morning of the 26th. he did not come in to (2),(3), explain his absence of the night before but sent in exhibit (4) & (5).A by the hand of the office coolie. As I was not fully

acquainted with the practice of the various departments I asked Mr. A. G. N. Fletcher to come and see me and after consulting him on the practice and being informed by him that the grant or refusal of leave was in my discretion and on being referred by him to G.0. No. 53 on page 227 of the Civil Service List for Hongkong, 1911, I sent for Law and in Mr. Fletcher's presence I asked him for his reasons for applying for leave. He became extremely talkative and impertinent and declined to give any reason whatever. I therefore told him that I would not grant his application. . Ixxxxed He then said that he would resign. I asked him to send in his resignation to the Colonial Secretary. I then drew up exhibit B and read it over to him and asked him if

he he wished me to send it in. At first he said that did not care one way or the other, but afterwards he said that he would rather I did not. I again asked him for his reasons for applying for leave and he said in reply that I was not entitled to have them and that both Mr. Rees Davies and I were trying to hound him, an old man of forty, out of the service and that he could take care of himself. He then said that ir. Rees Davies had sent

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