CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4] — Page 292

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Pro:26 APR 12

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG, 4th. April, 1912.

I have the honour to inform you that an applica-

-tion has been received from Lr. H. P. Tooker for extra remuneration on account of his having continued after his appointment to the post of Second Assistant Director of Public Works on 13th. April, 1911, to perform the duties of Executive Engineer in charge of the maintenance of telegraphs and telephones and extensions thereto both in Hongkong and the New Territories including from 1st. January 1912, when it was taken over, charge of the Railway telephone system.

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This arrangement was made because Mr. T. L. Perkins, who took over Mr. Tooker's duties on the latter's promo- -tion, was unfamiliar with the duties and because his Assistant was

in ill-health.

3.

Lär. Tooker represents that the actual overtime which he has worked during the past year has on a low estimate amounted to 15 days and I am satisfied from enquiries which I have made that apart from the heavy maintenance work in connection with telephones which has devolved upon him he has rendered other valu-

-able services to Government such as for example the installation of telephones and electric bells throughout the New Government Offices and Courts of Justice and the construction of the telephone line to Ts'un Wan Police Station, while the telegraph and telephone

lines as well as the instruments of the British Section of the

Kowloon-Canton Railway were taken over by the Public Works Depart-

ERICHT HONOURABLE

LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,

-ment

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