CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4] — Page 490

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MEG? | JUN 15

484

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG, 23rd. April, 1915.

Sir,

17893

I have the honour to confirm my telegram of

the 19th. April, an en clair version of which is enclosed, re- -questing that Mr. G. G. Burnett, Senior Clerk at the Post Office,

should be invalided from the Service.

2.

Mr. Burnett, who will be fifty years of age in

July next, has for some years past been in indifferent health, with

the result that his services have been of but little use; and they

will be of still less value in the event of his return to the

Colony, owing to the fact that a rearrangement of duties at the Post Office requires of the Senior Clerk an active superintendence of the Chinese Postmen, work for which Mr. Burnett would be totally

unfitted.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,

&c..

&c.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient,

humble servant,

Amaz

Governor, &c..

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