CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924 — Page 444

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

To Her Grace,

:)

he Duchess of Atholl, Blair Castle,

Blair Atholl.

May it please your Grace,

109 Strathmartine Road, DUNDEE, 28th November, 1924.

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Your suppliant, Robert Gardner McEwan, Senior Sanitary In:

:spector at kong kong is a Perthshire man, temporarily resident in

Dundee. As he is not at present an elector, he feels he has no call

upon the Members of rarliament for Dundee and ventures to Book the

indulgent assistance of your Grace as Member for Perthshire.

encouraged in this by the recollection that, when your Grace, with

His Grace the Duke, visited Hong kong and was the guest of Major

General Black, he had the honour or playing the bagpipes in your

presence and that you very graciously took notice of him at that time.

He is

In brief, your suppliant thinks he has been unjustly treated

in the allocation of his pension. The facts are statea in the ac:

:companying Memorial, which your suppliant respectfully craves may

be forwarded by your Grace to the proper quarter which is believed

to be the colonial orrice, with such recommenuation for sympathetic

Consideration as your Grace may think the matter deserves. The

Memorial is sent in triplicate, as it is understood that two copies

Bhould be sent to the colonial office.

With regard to the second crave in the Memorial, it should

be explained that a petition was previously lodged with His Majesty's

Secretary/

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