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XIX CONFIDENTIAL.
Enclosure No.1.
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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG,
6th July, 1939.
I have the honour to transmit to you in
accordance with Colonial Regulations a petition submitted
by a majority of the members of the Junior Clerical
Service of this Colony regarding their salaries and
general conditions of service.
2.
Before commenting on the points raised in the
petition I would observe that until this petition,
addressed to you, came up to me, after careful examination
in the Secretariat, I was unaware that the Junior Clerical
Service had reason for discontent with its terms of
service, no representations on the subject having come up
to me during the eighteen months of my governorship here.
The procedure of direct approach to the Secretary of
State for the Colonies is, I submit, to be deprecated on
the ground of discipline. On the other hand I feel sure
that the petitioners erred in ignorance of their pro per
course, intending no disrespect to my office as Governor;
furthermore I have considerable sympathy with certain of
their complaints.
I venture to suggest, therefore, that
the reply to this petition might be to the effect that
the case for the Junior Clerical Service should be laid in
the first instance before me and that an appeal to you
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
MALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P.,
&c.,
&C.,
&C.
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