CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2] — Page 527

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

A

523

of guidance, I have to work over hours.

And in this long steep shelterless district I have to

supervise the work first of Conservancy coolies, than I of

rubbish coolles and than scavenging of the roads, having

scarce time to go to Victoria to fetch the food stuff and to

prepare it, but still the value of my work has not been known.

Therefore according to condition No.3 of my standing orders whit

which states that I must see that the Sanitary Contractors for

the Bill district strictly comply with the conditions of their

contract, and to see that the conservancy contractor_complying

The with condition No.7 of his contract which states that contractor

shall remove daily between the hours of 12 midnight and 6 a.m.

unless prevented by the stress of weather ( indicated by the

hoisting of a black typhoon signal) to his conservancy boats

stationed as aforesaid, all excretal matters from all buildinge

in the Hill district, all government buildings (including

government latrines ) and all privately owned public latrines

in the district coffered by this contract, he shall provide a

staff of not leas than 3 foremen and 40 coolies for the Hill

district and 1 foreman and 15 coolies for Victoria goal,

and as there is no arranged time for mustering conservancy

coolies ( as for the mustering of rubbish coolie at 5 a.m. )

and as the typhoon signal was helated on the morning of 22nd,

23rd and 24th July 1912 I went out on duty early at 2 a.m. on

the morning of these dates to see whether the conservancy

coolles will come up or not, and if they come whether they will

carry out their work in a proper manner in the rough weather,

so I watched them and saw them that they did, according to

condition No.4 of my standing order) and in reply to the lat

charge stating that I absented myself from my duty without

leave (or the permission of the Principal medical office per

clause No.8 of my standing order) at 7.30 a.m. on 23/7/12

contrary to No.7 of the standing orders for the sanitary watch-

man of the Hill district, I beg to state that on this date I have performed my duties actually, see my diary of this date,

Comments

Approved members can add comments, bookmarks, and private notes.

No comments yet.

Private Research Note

Private notes are available after approval.