CO129-388 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1912 [1-2] — Page 97

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Your Excellency,

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18±k Bank Buildings.

HONGKONG

10th, January,

C O 1932

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I trust that Your Excellency will, in consideration of the work I have been happy to do for the Government since I have been in the Colony, permit me to

enlist your kind interest in my favour. Ever since the

death of my father Sir Chaloner Alabaster who in the

Consular service had spent his life under Government I have

had leanings towards an official in preference to a profes-

sional career. Accordingly when I was called to the Bar I

applied to the Secretary of State for an appointment of a

legal nature and since then I have from time to time brought

the particulars of my career up to date and renewed my

application. I belševe that my candidature for such

appointments has hitherto lacked three desirable features,

experience in legal practice, experiance in Government

service and necessarily the absence of the support of those

familiar with my work. But I know now that I have gained

by some eight years active practice at the Bar and nine

months service as acting Attorney General of this Colony

the first two of the desiderata and I trust that I have

not misconstrued the letter conveying the thanks of the

Government, which I received last week, into a belief that

I have in a measure also gained the last. May I therefore regard the expressions conveyed in that letter as an inti- mation that Your Excellency will support any renewed appli- cation I may make to the Secretary of State. I am anxious to get an Attorney Generalship or failing that a Pulse- Judgeship in any of the three Eastern Colonies or the

b. the Governor.

HONGKONG.

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