CO129-419 - Individuals - 1914 — Page 424

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Lee and

Aberdeen, Scotland.

10th September, 1914,

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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt

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of your letter No.13520/1914 of 20th June 1914 in

acknowledgment of my letter of 18th June 1914, in which

I pointed out that the Secretary of State's purely

personal conditions for the further increase had been

more than fulfilled, So far I have been given no valid

reason why these personal conditions laid down by the

Secretary of State and more than fulfilled on my part

are now being withheld, and I would most respectfully

observe that I am surely entitled to know what change of

a personal nature has occurred to justify the non-fulfill-

ment of the promise nade. If my interpretation of the

true meaning which it held out was wrong, I now beg to

enquire what other meaning I should have attached to the

Secretary of State's conditions in the case, sinoe he $

distinctly refused to consider my case, in relation to

the "post" which I occupied, but considered it only on

"personal" grounds? His Excellenoy Sir Henry May, as

I have already pointed out, made the mistake (doubtless

in the press of business) of dealing with the case on "post"

and not "personal" grounis, so that the acceptance of Sir

Henry May's recommendation, if based on that, would be a

nullifying of the decisions of both the then Governor,

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