CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11] — Page 69

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Koortoon- Canton Railway

Kowloon,

14 Sept. 1914.

good

Accounts. Mr. Fitz Gitton has shown great ability and

industry and has done

work for the Red/wan Deportion

His salary is

mont"

$2400 por

a.

H.E. Sin F.H. May

5.

Mr. Fitz Bitton's wife is

Chinese

and

Christian

凤

Your Exertioning.

But the lady

well educated Chinnse of the better class

has proved himself

one

of the attest Ewrop

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I

Took

may

of

18) and

CAMP

degree out to Chine

in the

Met

in October

6. Mr. Fiky Gibbon

cleaks in the Service and the Colonial Sexetary is of that he would be suitable

that the stort pericol

equivalent of simple imprisonment under the

In reply to your Excellency's note

Bachelor's

of to-day's date:

g

ay that

14.03

Accountant

!

at the

age

yean. My uncle.

in the Shanghai put formand my name to the IG. (Sin Asbert Har)

John Benson Fitz Gibson, who then was Custome

had

for the Indon Staff, but pending appointment, I joined the Chinese

opinion, in which I

1st Cleat, and states bost of

coneur

im prisonment without hand

not

મ

in brown which he underwent,

Indian Penal

bar to employment in the Public Service. If

Past

Mx Filz Sitten

ச

be

Br

Duration for

at least

and comitia dial

A

year

rate

of

£300

with

year,

month.

Should approve my recommendation,

salary at the

allowance

not exceeding $50

I

have the honour for be

Svi Your most abedicat and humta

Ama

Governor

T

served in the P.0. from Noveraber 1903 to

office at Shanghai. the end of January 1904,

when I

Customs at Shanghai. There deske and offices, until I was

in May 1906. My next port 1908).

At

wond

appointed Assistant in

the

I remained, serving at various

transferen + Kiean, chas (Halian) Hankow (Sept 1907

& & May

wad

Manhors I was

in change of the Returns (statistics); I went & Changsha (Human). Here I was. Commissioner Scenetary and

and Accrum lank

office. In May 1908 I went

for

most

咋

the time.

(in charge of the Custome

in Changsha that I in Desember 1910 Been at school.

CM

and Rovincial Postal Accounts). It

met

my

wife, when I

On arried

han return from Shanghai, where she had Cime morning

about a month later, while I was