CO129-472 - Others - 1921 — Page 528

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

12.6.01.

Dear Mr Churchill,

524

COVERNMENT HOUSE,

HỒNG KÔNG.

Forgive my traibling you with another

private letter but this is a

which I fal bound to refer to you

Wo

in the

personal matter

It arises out of the Colmcial Regulation which prohibits the acceptance of presents by a fficer or his family. most of East run up against this regulation frequently and I have always taken a firm live and Mfused to accept or to allow

my wife жу accept arcything of the slightest value except- for the most intimate friends-even

the cost of giving serious offence. But I

am now in a

difficulty. My wife has

et

recently given birth to a daughter. This is the first child bom in fovernment Hame and so the event has caused some

popular interest. A few days after the child was

bom I was asked whether to celebrate the

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