CO129-569-15 A.W. Brewin- queries on Brewin Charity and compensation for Chinese workmen 6-2-1938 - 6-2-1938 — Page 8

RECEIVED

2 C MAY 1978

C. O. REGY

Eyrefield,

Killiney,

Co. Dublin,

24th May, 1938.

Dear Mr. Gent,

I did not want to overburden my other letter,

but cannot let pass without comment the suggestion by the

Hongkong Government that I am in communication (behind your

back) with the S.C.A. I cannot fancy myself ever being

quite so inept and discourteous as that.

Naturally there are grounds for the suggestion,

and these are they. On the 9th June last year I sent the

S.C.A. a packet of papers and inflicted on him sixteen pages

of comment. Of these, thirteen related to the District

Watchmen Force and the duties of the S.C.A., one to Criminal

Justice Administration, and two pages to the Brewin Charity.

On the first of the two pages I told him in what files and

reports to look for the origin of the Charity; in the first

of two paragraphs on the second page I complained of there

being no mention of the Charity or its work in the body of

his report; in the second paragraph I contended that the

Charity should not be treated as a sub-department of the

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