CO129-577-8 Junior Clerical Service- petition for improvements in salaries and conditions of service 6-7-1939 - 19-12-1939 — Page 58

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for such an honour but that when they are denied it during the

tenure of office, they merely leave the Service and subsequently

obtain official recognition. Your petitioners beg to suggest

that official recognition, even of this limited nature, would

greatly discourage Chinese Civil Servants from leaving Government

Service at a stage when they have acquired valuable experience

for their work.

Dated 1st February, 1939.

Your petitioners therefore humbly

pray that the Right Honourable His

Majesty's Principal Secretary of

State for the Colonies may be

graciously pleased to hearken to

the prayers of this petition and

your petitioners, as in duty bound,

will ever pray etc..

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