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Sir,
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
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Hongkong, 25th. August, 1911.
On behalf of the British Shipping Community
and its interest in this Colony I beg to lay before you our viewe with regard to the present Harbour Master and to ask that His Excellency will be good enough to give the question his serious consideration and place the matter before the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
It is now some 12 years since Commander Basil
R. H. Taylor, R.N., first came to this Colony as Assistant Harbour Master while shortly after and at not infrequent interval he acted as Harbour Master, obtaining the substantive appointment on the death of our friend the late Captain Barnes-Lawrence, R.N. Mr. Taylor is thus well known to us all, many
of us having from the first been intimately associated with him in his work at the Harbour Office.
He has now been on leave for some months and
we presume would, in the ordinary course of events ultimately return to Hongkong; we therefore consider it now to be a fitting time for us to express our views with regard to this Official. To be brief, it is the earnest wish of all
the representatives of British Shipping in this Port that Mr. Basil Taylor should not return to the Colony in the capacity of Harbour Master.
His Excellency, has, I believe, had this
question before him in the past.
Al-most from the first, and again on almost every occasion when Mr. Taylor has been in acting charge of the Harbour Department dissatisfaction has been expressed as to the manner in which he has conducted himself towards individuals
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