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Conclosure 1.
Hongkongi
RECO
C.O.
9088
REG17 MAR 13
516
December 17th-1912-
I have the honour to ask that your Lordship will be kind
enough to carefully peruse the enclosed documents, and to lend
your assistance to a down-trodden British subject.
As you will observe from the accompanying reports, I am
a native of India, & most loyal subject of his Majesty King George,
and until recently I was a humble servant of the Hongkong Govern-
ment.
Owing, however, to the jealousy of certain inspectors in
him
the Sanitary Department, who asked me to lend them money, and also
in consequence of a certain Supreme Court action in which I
represent the Sikh Community of this Colony against one, Jemader
Kair Singh gusaugust Lal Singh of the Hongkong Police on the Bath-ulf this year certain
charges as set out in the accompanying documents were preferred
against me, and although I answered these charges at great length
and completely exonerated myself from all the allegations which were
made against me, the Head of the Sanitary Department reported to
the Governor-in-Council, and the latter refused to reconsider his
decision, in consequence of which, after many years of faithful
service to the Hongkong Government I have been turned adrift, and
am now in the unfortunate position of the unemployed, and without
a champion of my cause.
Subsequently I was in a position to call further evidence,
and through my solicitors wrote the Colonial Secretary and asked
him to request the Governor to grant me a further hearing.
His Excellency, however, refused this, and thus debarred
me from clearing my good name and fame.
I then wrote the acting Head of the Sanitary Department
and the members of the Sanitary Board praying for their interven-
tion on my behelf, but not one member of the Board had the courtesy
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