CO129-575-12 Education Department- promotions 11-4-1939 - 27-3-1940 — Page 29

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Sir,

25th March, 1939.

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1

I am directed to refer to your letter of

16th March, 1939, and to inform you that His Excellency

the Governor has read carefully and sympathetically

your appeal in the matter of your being passed over

for promotion to a superscale post in the Education

Department. His Excellency realizes that it is a

poignant matter for an officer who has always given of

his best to be thus passed over and it was only after

the closest personal consideration on His Excellency's

part that this decision was taken in your case.

2.

His Excellency directs me to add that this

decision does not reflect in any way on your work as

a teacher, but, as you are doubtless aware, the qualities required in a holder of a superscale post transcend the purely technical and it was on that ground that His Excellency agreed reluctantly with the Director of

Education that he could not see his way to recommend you

to the Secretary of State for the Colonies for promotion

to such a post.

I am, Sir,

Your obedient servant,

(sd.) N. L. Smith.

Colonial Secretary.

D.M. Richards, Esq., B.A.,

Education Department,

Hong Kong.

(Similar letter sent to Mr. G.W. Reeve.)