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Maintenance and Construction Offices, which are

concomitant, have functions generally unrelated

to each other,

(f) the young Engineer, by the experience gained in

the execution of the works under his charge, by

assimilation of the practical features peculiar

to the public services administered by his Sub-

department and by study of the current technical

publications pertaining to his branch of Civil

Engineering, becomes more and more fitted both

for the special work of his Sub-department and

for administering that Sub-department.

That, a logical interpretation of the current General

Order 11 appears to be that only when the claims of two or more

officers, to a vacant office, are of equal value with respect

to official qualifications, experience and merit, should the

officer next senior be promoted.

In the foregoing circumstances YOUR

PETITIONER craves Your favourable con-

sideration of this Petition and humbly

prays You to grant him Your recognition of

his claim for promotion to the status of

Executive Engineer.

AND YOUR PETITIONER will ever pray as in

duty bound.

Dated at Hong Kong this 12

12th

day of November 1937.

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