CO129-612-3 Police Department- petition from European memebers of Inspectorate 20-7-1949 - 20-1-1950 — Page 40

(2/48) [16] Wt. 19126/754 50m. 7/48 C.N.Ld. 748

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WATSON.

Mr.

Mr...

Mr....

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54247/9 Hong Kong.

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Fermt. U.S. of S.

Parly. U.S. S.

Minister of State

Secretary of State

DRAFT. LETTER.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

SIR ALAN LASCELLES, G.C.V.O., K. C. B., C.M. G., M.C.

FURTHER ACTION.

Your Reference.

For Mr. Watson's signature.

PERSONAL.

Dear Sir Alan,

This letter accompanies an official

letter to you submitting a petition to His

Majesty from the European Inspectors Association

of the Hong Kong Police Force. There has been

an unusually long delay in submitting this

petition, and I thought that perhaps you would

wish to be able to give His Majesty some

explanation of the reasons both for the delay

probably would

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and for my Secretary of State's decision on the

matters contained in the petition itself.

did not however wish to trouble you by a telephone

there fore

call to Balmoral and thought

instead I

would send you this personal letter.

The petition reached us, with the

Governor's comments upon it, on the 2nd December,

1948. It was immediately considered in the

Department here but was not submitted to His

Majesty at once for two reasons:-

(a) An official committee was at the

time carrying out a thorough investigation in

Hong Kong into cost of living. allowances. Th:

result of this committee's work would clearly

have

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