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Colonial Secretary's Office
Hongkong, 25th. September 1911.
Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 20th. instant I am directed to inform you that in view of the terms of letter No. 4 in 4307/10 of the 31st. ultimo from this department in which the appointment of Assistant Crown Solicitor was offered to you at a salary of £420 rising to £540 by $40 triennially, His Excellency the Governor is at a loss to know how you could have understood, when you accepted the post, that its salary was £400 rising to £560 by 000 annually with duty pay of £100.
2. By the express instructions of the Secretary of State for the Colonies duty-pay is attached only to those posts in clauses I, II and III of the civil service to which cadet officers have a preferential claim: and the post of Assistant Crown Solicitor has not been included by the Secretary of State among the posts to which cadet officers have a preferential claim.
F. A. Hodgson Esq.
I am,
sir,
Your obeliant servant
(ed) Tarzan Barnes
Colonial Secretary.
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