CO129-503-6 Vacancies for schoolmasters- difficulty in filling posts- terms of appointment and service 17-3-1927 - 15-11-1927 — Page 69

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stipulation made up to the present

that an Educational Officer in Hong Hong

must remain unmarried for the first

four years of his service.

(In this connection I should

inform you that the legality of such a

stipulation is open to question. A

pro viso of this nature appearing in an

Agreement with a private employer

would be void in law, and I am advised

that if an officer who married after

signing a contract, the terms of which

involved his remaining single, it would

not be possible to defend his being

di smi ssed solely on that account. In

any case, after careful consideration of

a similar problem in connection with

appointments in the Educational

Department in the straits Settlements

and the Federated Malay States, I have

decided that I cannot impose an absolute

bar of this character, as, apart from

any question of legality, I regard such

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