CO129-505-6 Chinese telegraph office at Hong Kong- transfer to Cantonese control 8-7-1927 - 29-12-1927 — Page 49

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Enclosure No./C.

Translation.

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Order No.103 from the Ministry of Communication to Chan Cheung

Ying, Commissioner of the Telegraph Bureau in Hong Kong.

Enquiries show that the Ex-Commissioner Lau Cheuk Pan has sent no reports or funds to the Ministry for the past several months. It is hoped that you the Commissioner, when you have taken up the post, will audit carefully the funds that may be handed over to

you. And you are hereby held responsible to report

and send to the Ministry for its support all balance of

money that may be left every month after you have

assumed your charge in the Bureau. You are required to

send at least $2500 every month without fail.

This is very important.

Sheung Yam Wai,

Vice-Minister of the Ministry of

Communication, Acting for the Minister.

Dated 20th July of the 16th rear of the Chinese Republic.

Seal of the Ministry of Communication.

(1927)

Witness of the seal

Ku Tak Tsim.

Depatch checked by Tso Hung.

To

Envelope.

Chan Cheung Ying,

Commissioner of the Telegraph Bureau in Hong Kong

Dated 20th July of the 16th Year of the Chinese Republic.

Back of Envelope

(1927)

Sealed by the Ministry of Communication.

Seal of the Ministry of Communication.