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half salary of an Assistant Superintendant of Police then at home on leave. Sir Henry May, then Colonial Secretary, made a great point of the appointment being made personal to me, and that it should not be used as a precedent in the case of successive Assis- -tant Harbour Masters. I performed the duties to the best of my ability, and, I believe, satisfactorily, but, on the return from leave of the officer whose half salary I was receiving, the allow- -ance ceased, (although the Secretary of State had approved the payment to me of a similar salary from the revenue of the Colony), and I was required to continue to perform the extra duties for some months, without remuneration.

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5. In October 1906, when my predecessos as Harbour Master (Captain Barnes Lawrence) died, I was at home on half-pay leave, but offered to return to the Colony at once and forego the remain- -der of my leave. This offer was not accepted, but I was promo- -ted to the vacancy, and my appointment as Harbour Master &c: appeared in the Hongkong Government Gazette in (I think) November 1906. Nevertheless, I continued to receive but the half salary of Assistant Harbour Master until I arrived in the Colony on the 28th February 1907.

6. Early in March 1907, an official from the Staits Set- -tlements Government arrived, by arrangement, at Hongkong, to con- -fer with the Hongkong. Government on the subject of some proposed. amendments to the migration laws. These amendments had been advocated by me in representations I had made, before going home on leave in 1906, in my capacity as Assistant Emigration Officer,; and the arrangement referred to above was made during my absence. The papers on the subject were not, however, referred to me on my return, nor had they been referred, as I understand, to the offic who acted as locum tenens after Captain Barnes Laurence's death until my aɛrival, and the conference took place without any refe

I even had no knowledge of -rence to me, the Emigration Officer.

the intention to hold the conference, or of the presence in the Colony of the Officer from the Straits Settlements, until after his departure, by which time everything had been settled, without reference to the only officer in the Colony with any practical y experience of the working of the then existing Emigration 1