CO129-402 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [7-8] — Page 136

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CONFIDENTIAL.

Sir,

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ALL

RE 4 AUG 13

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG.

15th. July, 1913.

130

With reference to your Confidential Despatch of

the 16th. January, 1913, I beg leave to restate the facts concern- -ing the pay of Kr. S. B. C. Ross in his appointment as District Officer, as it seems to me that certain material points may have

been overlocked.

2.

In the first place I desire to note that lir.

Ross was appointed Assistant Land Officer (a post afterwards re- -named Assistant District Officer) for the Northern District of the

llew Territories on the 2nd. July, 1900. Between the 6th. December, 1900, and the 2uth. February, 1909, and again from the 24th. March, 1909, to the 3rd. July, 1911, Lr. Ross acted as District Officer and he was appointed District Officer substantively on the 29th. November, 1912. Dr. Ross also served as Registrar of the Land

Court in the New Territories in 1902: he acted as Assistant Superintendent of Police and Police Kagistrate in the New Territori- -es (the post afterwards renamed District Officer) from the uth. March, 1905, to the 22nd. March, 1905, and as Assistant Land Officer at Taipo from the 20th. July, 1907, to the date of his confirmation in that post. This long residence in the orthern District has given lir. Ross an exceptional knowledge of the New Territories: he is persona ratissime with the inhabitants and the village elders, whose confidence in him is a considerable asset to this Government; and he is both in physique and by disposition

especially

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

&C.,

LEWIS HARCOURT, H.P..

&C.,

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