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HOLLAND LODGER 30 JAN 12

35 ADDISON ROAD. W.

29 January. 1912.

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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your

1.

letter, No 1875 1912, of the 27th instant, and to point out, in

connection with the concluding paragraph thereof, that I have

had precisely the same thaining, from childhood, as that enjoyed

by all other Naval officers, several of whom have been, and are,

employed bøder the Colonial Office in appointments abroad other

than those as Harbour Master, Master Attendant, Captain of the

Port, and the like. While not presuming to class myself with

such distinguished officers as Sir Harry Rawson and Sir Frederic

Bedford, I may at least instance the employment of my predeces-

-sor in my present post, Commander Rumsey, as Colonial Secretary

at Lagos, and of the appointment of Lieutenant Frederic Gaunt,

(now Captain .R.N) as Commissioner at Wei Hai Wei, in 1898, when

a messmate and fellow Lieutenant with me in the "Narcissus”.

2. At the same time, I cannot recognise that the .n

numerous Military officers who have held, or do hold, similar

appointments in various Colonies had any special knowledge,

training, or experience before their appointment to such posts,

which rendered them better fitted for the tasks before them than

I am at the present moment. To give a single instance. The

present Colonial Secretary in Cyprus, (whose family are great

friends of mine, and one of his brothers is my medical adviser),

had no Colonial experience at all when he was selected for a

Commissionership in Africa, while I have had more than twelve

The Under Secretary of State

Colonial Office.

years