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REG 13 DEC 201

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Harbour Department

Hongkong.

26 May 1920.

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la reperusing the correspondence which has passed on the subject of my compulsory retirement, 1 observe that

it is apparently taken for granted that ay successor in the post of Harbour Master will be Commander C. ↑ Beckwith RN.

As I bave not been asked for my recommendations as to the

filling of the vacancy to be forned by my retirement, as

has hitherto been the practise, and as my silence in the

matter might be construed into consent with this arrange=

ment, I have the honour most reluctantly to offer my opinion unsought, in order that a record may remain in the Department

and in the Colonial archives of my views on this important

subject.

2. While fully conscious of the delicacy of the

thus ungrateful task 1 an undertaking, I nevertheless feel that the public increst now and in the future imposes this duty

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