CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7] — Page 571

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N° 272.

HONGKONG.

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45894

[Rev 10 SEr 22

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

27th July, 1922.

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Sir,

I have the honour to inform you that I have recently had under consideration the question of increasing the staff of the Harbour Office in this Colony. The Harbour Master is at present working with the same European staff as his predecessor employed in 1886, though the volume of work has been doubled in the meantime. I am setisfied that it is not possible for him to maintain a proper supervision and control over the actual harbour work owing to the amount of pressing work of other kinds to be dealt with in the office by the Assistant Harbour Master and himself.

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I am of the opinion that the best solution of the difficulty is to make a rearrangement with the assistance of an additional European officer who has sea experience and a good general knowledge of harbour work.

I have accordingly sanctioned the appointment on probation of Mr. E. G. Woodger as Third Boarding Officer at a salary of £320 per annum, with effect from the 1st August, 1922. Mr. Woodger has had considerable experience as Third and Junior Officer in various merchant ships and is in every way suited to this post. I forward herewith

a copy of Application for Employment in the Colonial Service which has been filled in by Mr. Woodger,

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

WINSTON CHURCHILL, M.P.,

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