CO129-508-10 Application by C. G. Alabaster for judicial appointment in Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States... 13-12-1927 - 18-2-1928 — Page 12

NO CONFIDENTIAL.

Ansel bony (2) -

18 FEB 1928

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG. 15th December, 1927.

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Sir,

I have the honour to enclose an application from Mr. Chaloner Grenville Alabaster, K.C., 0.B.E., J.P.,

that his name should be put forward as a candidate for a Judicial Post in the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States in view of the possibility of vacancies occurring in the near future: and to recommend his application for your

favourable consideration.

2.

Lir. Alabaster attaches to his application the

necessary particulars of his life and services. It will

be noted that he has officially been connected with this Government as Acting Attorney General and as a Member of the Executive and Legislative Councils for several periods

during his career, and that in addition to revising the Ordinances of the Colony (for which he received the thanks

of the Legislative Council in 1913) his services have been

continuously at the disposal of the Government and of the

public in many different capacities on the Licensing

Board, and the Sanitary Board; as Cable Censor during the

first three years of the War and as Chairman of the Hong

Kong Publicity Bureau.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.CM.S. AMERY, M.P.,

&c.,

&c.,

&c.

3./