[ { "id": 259747, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8]", "page_number": 397, "title": "CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8]", "content_text": "393\n\nJohn Dodd, logs, and Lieutenant; - 7th April 1862.\n\nDo\n\nLieutenant; 10th April 1863.\n\nHenry Cohen, Loye 2nd Lieutenant; __\n\nJohn Dodd, Sqr., Adjutant, _ int. April, 100\n\nPhilip Albert Myburgh Esq., Captain, 8th\n\n1884\n\nJohn Dodd, loge, 2nd Captain and Adjutant, 24 \"May\"\n\nHenry James Holmes, lby, Lieutenant,\n\nDuncan Davidson, Pop, 2nd Lieutenant;\n\nFrederick Brine, Esq. (Major R. E.), Lieutenant Colonel Commandant 20th July 1864.\n\nHenry Cohen, Gry, Lieutenant;\n\nAshwell Crom, Love, Captain, -\n\nWilliam James Henderson, Pop, 2nd Lieutenant\n\nM. Slut-\n\nAck: werfil\n\nL rent\n\nWhy C.R.O. J infomotor.\n\n(12th Oct bu\n\nI have the honor to be Sir\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nKenneth St. George Robinson", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 260929, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "page_number": 156, "title": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "content_text": "154\n\n1859 to April 1862\n\nHe was a very intelligent, attentive, and persevering workman, has a competent knowledge of machine and engine work, generally, and left here to take a situation as Foreman in a private establishment.\n\n(Signed) G. W. Boxer\n\nLieut. Colonel R. A.\n\nSuperintendent Royal Laboratory\n\nRoyal Laboratory, Woolwich\n\n18th Feby of 1864.\n\n-employed here as\n\nJohn Singlis\n\nengineer\n\nApril 1862.\n\nCopy\n\nto\n\nabout two years & half up\n\nI consider him a first-class workman, and he is well acquainted with mechanical engineering work generally.\n\nand\n\nHis intelligence is much above the ordinary amount and he is very sober, honest, attentive and persevering\n\nand\n\nleft\n\nthis department to take a leading part\n\nin a\n\nprivate establishment.\n\nMr Inglis\n\nSigned. J. Davidson\n\nManager\n\nRoyal Laboratory, Woolwich\n\n22nd Feby 1864\n\nI find that in making out your character recently, I made a mistake in your service, you having been entered in 1859 and not in 1850.\n\nAs Stated.\n\nYou may therefore show this to any person who requires the character\n\n(Signed) S. Davidson\n\nManager\n\nYou", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-103 - Others - 1864.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 261444, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4]", "page_number": 143, "title": "CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4]", "content_text": "## \n\n**140**\n\n\"Captain and Brevet Major John Guillum Scott, 22nd Bombay Native Infantry, to be Lieutenant Colonel Commandant.\n\n\"H.E. Brigadier Viscount Gough, ordered home, and in consideration of his services permitted to retain his rank in the Corps and the uniform.\n\n\"Henry John Howard Tripp, Esquire, Gunner Hong Kong Volunteers and Extra Aide-de-Camp to His Excellency The Governor, to be 2nd Captain and Adjutant, vice Dodd who resigns the Adjutancy only and is placed on the Supernumerary List of his rank.\n\n\"Cranford Davidson Kerr, Esquire, Private Hong Kong Volunteers, to be Extra Aide-de-Camp to His Excellency The Governor, vice Tripp who resigns the Extra A.D.C. only appointment and is appointed 2nd Captain and Adjutant.\n\n\"Memo\"\n\n\"His Excellency The Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of the Commission only held in the Hong Kong Volunteers by 2nd Lieutenant Duncan Davidson, Artillery Company\"\n\n\"First Lieutenant H.C. Coken to be Captain, vice Myburgh, resigned.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 261495, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4]", "page_number": 194, "title": "CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4]", "content_text": "191\n\nand Adjutant of the Hongkong Volunteers are ...\n\nFor the past 3 years I have been out of pocket for my expenses here and put £300 a year at £150.\n\nAs I am ordered home through ill health and my 3 years' service in China having expired - I leave my case to the generosity of the Colonial Government, but it is absolutely necessary for the future efficiency of the Corps to subsidize the Adjutant. To-day I recommend Gunner H. Tripp of the P.&O. Co., son of the late Colonel Tripp who commanded a Corps at Stanley, for the Adjutancy in vice Captain Dodd of the 2nd Battalion Royal Scots, who has proceeded to the Island of Formosa and for several months previously had been located at Canton. 2nd Lieutenant D. Davidson has acted for him in the interval but he now wishes to resign. Under these circumstances I have the honor to recommend that application be made to the Imperial Government for a Colonial Grant of £100 a year as the Adjutant's Contingent, this will cover Horse, Coolie and Drill charges which Mr Tripp honestly admits he cannot afford out of his salary.\n\n(True Copy)\n\nCal A Frinton\n\n(Dyned)\n\nFred: Brine,\n\nCapt. R. E., B.M. and Lieut. Col. Commanding R.A.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 306385, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9]", "page_number": 141, "title": "CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9]", "content_text": "For the appointment, I hope,\n\nY—\n\nthe copies of several testimonials enclosed will prove\n\n2.\n\nhow satisfactory\n\nI may also mention that I have had several years' experience in repairing a large portion of the steam vessels passing through and trading from Hongkong. And in many cases, I have been surveying and giving reports on the machinery of passenger and cargo steamers,\n\nwhich reports were received by Lloyd's and other shipping authorities. I have also managed a penal engineering business and the construction of new boats and launches, and boilers of various sizes.\n\nI am enclosing copies of testimonials. Kindly allow me to refer to those from Colonel Boxer, No. A, and Mr. James Duncan Davidson, both of Woolwich Arsenal, where I was employed in the department and assisted in working out the new machinery being designed and introduced at that time.\n\n140\n\nOn being appointed in 1864 as Superintendent of the dock then being constructed for the Colony, I inspected a larger portion of the new work.\n\n682\n\nOn my arrival, I took charge of the construction of the building and machinery.\n\nOn the closing of that institution in April 68, I secured an appointment as Acting Secretary of the Union Dock Company, and superintended the completion of the dock. Marion was a Nahops at Kowloon, now the property of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, through the amalgamation of the two companies in 1870.\n\nIn making application to His Excellency the Governor for this appointment, kindly allow me...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 397391, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12]", "page_number": 685, "title": "CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12]", "content_text": "## 681 \n\n13th at Hongkong.\n\nWe should, however, like to know if the Governor of the Colony would suggest any alteration of this programme, and Colonel Davidson asks me to enquire if the Colonial Office could telegraph to him about it.\n\nHe further wishes me to ask if any answer has yet been received to the telegram to the Governor General of Canada enquiring whether April 12th or April 19th would be the most suitable for the members of the Mission, excepting His Royal Highness and his Equerry, to leave Canada.\n\nHe would like that reply, when received from Lord", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 408000, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906", "page_number": 464, "title": "CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906", "content_text": "3253\n\n5/06 Strong Kry\n\n459\n\nGovernor\n\nColonel Douro ngay\n\nDRAFT.\n\nSubstance of Telegrams.\n\nNiblett 17/1/1906\n\nW Stamilton\n\nMr Fidder\n\nRecorded.\n\nCopy to be sent to:\n\n• Singapore\n\nGr. 112\n\nPlease send the following Message to Colonel Davidson on verification:\n\nReferring to your telegram of 28 January, the King has decided that Prince Arthur is to be British Representative only in Japan and nowhere else.\n\n1 February 1906", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 457978, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 71, "title": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "Mr Butto\n\nPlease rating each bol. Jutes\n\nmy\n\n&\n\nJahill open to his again a\n\nthe algust.\n\n14\n\nin 3.12\n\nxin in Co. Ju\n\natt a rhed letter\n\n17h Rec\n\nC\n\n8 thi Collins\n\nthe The Secy of State\n\nto have the\n\nwill be glad\n\nobrons of the Deft\n\nmr. Beckett\n\nCan\n\nyou get\n\nhold of prev pp.\n\nmr Cottens\n\nPlease see\n\nvarious other\n\nZur Davidson\n\n2.12.15\n\n7.0/51260\n\naratter\n\nOB\n\n2/12/15-\n\n& ff. attached to it: also\n\nin box.\n\n18 2/12/15\n\n69\n\nhit Collins has spoken to me on this: please\n\nmenuter attached to 8.0/51280 S below, which show what attitude Sir G. Fiddes & Ein J. Anderson consider should be latten ufe in regard to Colonel's proposal.\n\nDBB 2/12/15\n\nup\n\n1 Jakie", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 461997, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6]", "page_number": 630, "title": "CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6]", "content_text": "so earnest in its effort to purge the land of these men, when we remember the last report of the Social and Moral Reform League. In this report we are told that vice in British Columbia is protected by the Government, and reform measures opposed bitterly. Yet those who know the Hindus best testify to the fact that there is surprisingly little criminality among them.\n\n\"It is said that they will not assimilate. I have watched with wonder and delight the process of assimilation. Given fair conditions and they do adapt themselves rapidly. Their eagerness to learn, to fit into the new order, was to me surprising, as I watched them in California. After knowing such types in India, it was a surprise to watch especially the psychological process of assimilation. Few positive results mean much more than scores of negative results. If they are not assimilating, the un-Christian atmosphere in which they live must explain it.\n\n\"Never have I seen such opportunities of helping India as amongst her lonely sons on the Pacific coast. They were eager to learn, respectful and earnest. But times are changing, and the un-Christian attitude of our land is fixing a wide—may it not prove an impassable gulf—between Canada and India.\"\n\nThat racial prejudice and passion let loose on the coast in the summer of 1914 was altogether overdone is the opinion of competent people. They say there is already a reaction. A well-known Canadian in the course of a recent letter to the writer says, \"I am quite free to inform you that in my opinion the treatment of the East Indians in the province of British Columbia has not been of the best, and the Federal authorities without question in my mind have never understood the situation nor have they tried to understand the people themselves. This is to be accounted for from the fact that the officials who were in the various departments of the Government are in my opinion (and I say without any hesitation) incompetent, and also have made no effort to understand the people but have assumed a good many things to be true that are not true.\" How far the incompetency enters into the case the writer is not prepared to state, but he leaves it for the readers to decide the matter. He lays before the public this opinion for what it is worth.\n\nAnother friend from Vancouver writes especially regarding the Komagata Maru: \"I feel that the effect of the inhuman treatment that was accorded to the Hindus by the Canadian authorities is going to have a far-reaching effect. The Singapore incidents and the other troubles in India are, I believe, the direct outcome of the unfortunate episode. I am of the opinion that the Sikhs came to Vancouver really believing that the doors of Canada were wide open for their entry, after the decision of the Chief Justice in the Narain Singh case....\n\nI blame Mr. H. H. Stevens for all this unfortunate episode. Nothing could exceed the tenacity with which he fought the affair.\" (Mr. Stevens, our readers will remember, is the M.P. for Vancouver in the Dominion House of Commons.)\n\nI may here state the great ability of the Sikhs in adapting themselves to the conditions in Canada which were new to them. How, not knowing the language, they started night schools for learning English. Many have gone back to India and have been zealous in providing education for the boys and girls in the villages by starting schools. In one notable case, they have sent more than $15,000.00 and started an excellent high school in the Punjab. The writer knows the case of a young Hindu, eighteen years of age, who by his pluck and industry is supporting himself and acquiring English in a high school and thus fitting himself for better service.\n\nNot only have the Sikhs in Canada helped in starting schools for their children, knowing full well the difficulties they had to contend with on account of their not having the opportunity, but they have also helped in giving to the villagers and stay-at-homes in India some idea of the great Western world. As a matter of fact, the returned emigrants have, except in rare instances, shown genuine desire for reform and thus served as vehicles for carrying Western civilization to these out-of-the-way and remote villages. Some have taken with them to India agricultural machinery and implements and are thus fitting themselves to be better farmers.\n\nIn 1908, when there was financial stringency, they started a colonization company on a co-operative plan. With that end in view, two hundred acres were bought near Vancouver where the Sikhs out of employment could get work, but of late years things have improved and they have had all the work they wanted.\n\nMany of them have bought land and put up houses here. Their holdings in land, houses, livestock (as many of them have quite a few dairy cattle), horses, and wagons, etc., amount to at least two million dollars. I have heard white grocers and others say that they would trust a Sikh and continue doing business with him, as over and over again it has happened that after being in debt for one or two years, he will come and pay his debts to the grocer and storekeeper.\n\nThere are no paupers amongst the Sikhs, as their system of practical self-help insures that those who have been unfortunate in being out of work, or on account of some accident, are duly cared for by the well-to-do members of the community. They have put up considerable sums to help the weaker brethren in divers ways. And this reminds me of the case of nearly ninety Hindus who were held up by the authorities at the port of Seattle, Wash., and ordered to be deported until each of them put up a security of $500 cash. To show the Hindus' self-help, their friends in British Columbia, with great generosity characteristic of them, supplied the forthcoming money to the tune of nearly $50,000 and had these men released on bail in the fall of 1913.\n\nIn addition to this, the Sikhs have built temples in Vancouver, Victoria, New Westminster, and Abbotsford, all in B.C. The one at Victoria cost over $10,000.00. These are open to the public.\n\nHere are the opinions of various employers of labor. The Michigan Puget Sound Lumber Co., Ltd., of Victoria say: \"This is to certify that we have employed a large number of Hindus in our mill for the last few years. We find them hardworking, reliable, and steadfast at their work. They have made good in Canada. They are strong workmen and we can strongly recommend them to others requiring steady laborers.\"\n\nA farmer who has experience of all kinds of labor in Canada says: \"These two men are Sikhs, and there are no better, more conscientious men on the place. They get along well with other men and are continually racing between themselves to see which can do the more work. Any man good enough to fight for the Empire is good enough to work for me.\"\n\nMessrs. Moore & Pethick, Engineers and Contractors, of Victoria, write: \"We beg to state that we are large employers of Hindu labor in connection with our railroad construction, and at present have about one hundred and fifty of them working for us at Union Bay, and some forty to fifty at Osborne Bay. We wish to express our high appreciation of them in our work. They are infinitely superior to ordinary pick and shovel 'white' labor.\"\n\nThe Columbia River Lumber Company, Ltd., of Golden, B.C., state: \"This is to certify that for the past two and a half years we have had in our employ in our sawmills and lumber yards about one hundred Sikhs and Hindus. We are pleased to say that with a very few exceptions, those men gave us very good satisfaction. We have found them to be good, steady workers, attentive to their work, quite intelligent, and quick to learn, and we are pleased to say that the great majority are men of sober habits and good character.\"\n\nColonel Davidson of Davidson & Macrae, one of the biggest employers of Hindu labor on the Pacific Coast, says that the Sikhs are the most efficient men he has. He has had in his firm sometimes as many as 500 or 600 Sikhs working. Surely he ought to know. When they came, they were unskilled; now they are getting responsible positions. Every time the Colonel goes and inspects them, he finds their sheds clean and tidy, and the Sikhs themselves look far better physically since coming to Canada. Surely, if their friends can stand the climate in the trenches of France and Flanders, they can stand the climate here. Moreover, the people here forget that the Punjab, whence the Sikhs come, is quite cold in winter. I have seen Sikhs working at Rogers' Pass, B.C., where there is sometimes as much as 26 feet of snow, and feeling none the worse for it.\n\nAnother friend from the United States writes: \"For a number of months, I have been visiting most of the Hindu camps in Southern California, and I must confess that as a class of laborers, they have no peer in the labor market. There is only one opinion expressed by the Americans who have employed them, and that is: 'The Hindus are good workmen—superior to any class of laborers that I have ever employed.' I have seen them at their heavy tasks of clearing orange land from rocks and rubbish of every sort, and I can testify that they are most faithful to their employers.\"\n\nDr. E. H. Lawson, M.D., says:\n\n\"There is one phase of the Hindu question concerning which the majority of the public seem to hold most erroneous opinions. I refer to his personal habits regarding cleanliness, use of alcoholic liquors, etc. As ship surgeon on the C.P.R. steamer Monteagle, and later the Tartar, at the time of the greatest influx of Hindus, the majority of these people passed under my close observation. It was my duty to make a thorough physical examination of each emigrant at Hong Kong, and although at first I was strongly prejudiced against them, I lost this prejudice after thousands of them had passed through my hands, and I had compared them with the white steerage passengers I had seen on the Atlantic.\n\n\"I refer in particular to the Sikhs, and I am not exaggerating in the least when I say that they were 100 per cent. cleaner in their habits and freer from disease than the European steerage passengers I had come in contact with. The Sikhs impressed me as...\n\nPage 630\nPage 631", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 485927, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920", "page_number": 281, "title": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920", "content_text": "# Official Report\n\n10 Nov 1920\n\n## CHILDREN (TREATMENT)\n\n## Colonies\n\n60. Dr. MURRAY asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is prepared to give an assurance to this House that children and girls are not being openly bought and sold in the Colony of Hong Kong!\n\nThe UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for the COLONIES (Lieut.-Colonel Amery): Yes, Sir. I have described the nature of the actual transactions in the reply given to questions on this subject by the hon. Member for Poplar (South) (Sir A. Yeo) and the hon. Member for Spen Valley (Mr. Myers) on the 4th November.\n\nDr. MURRAY: Is it not a fact that the practice of slavery is increasing under this Government in many parts of the Empire?\n\nLieut.-Colonel AMERY: No.\n\n## \n\nNovember 19th 1920.\n\nDear Mr. Sewell,\n\nColonel Amery wishes me to say that he would be very glad if you could give him a few minutes some day to come and have a talk about the allegations regarding child slavery in Hong Kong. Tuesday next at 12 o'clock would be a convenient time for Colonel Amery, perhaps you would be so kind as to let me know whether it would be convenient for you to come then?\n\nI should add that Colonel Amery is suggesting to Major General Sir J.H. Davidson, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O., who has recently been in correspondence with him on this subject, that he should get into touch with you with a view to a talk. If General Davidson should write to you, you will understand and I hope will excuse us for causing you the bother.\n\nYours truly,\nClaude Schuster, C.B.\n\nPage 280 \n`AJU` \n1 \n`SR` \n2 \n`bibretto`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 503004, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8]", "page_number": 79, "title": "CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8]", "content_text": "SECRET.\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE-\n\nHONGKONG.\n\n21st June, 1926.\n\n78\n\n12715\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to paragraphs 10 and 11 of my secret despatch dated the 21st May, 1926, in which I expressed the opinion that under conditions now existing in China the abolition of likin is impracticable, I have observed with much interest that this view is shared by competent observers in central and northern China and in Japan.\n\n2.\n\nMr. H. Goffe, His Majesty's Consul General at Hankow, wrote in a despatch to His Majesty's Minister at Peking, dated the 5th January, 1926:- \"Two responsible Chinese officials recently expressed to me in conversation their opinion that the abolition of likin was an absolute impossibility; and this is the view generally accepted here\".\n\n3.\n\nMr. J.W.O. Davidson, His Majesty's Consul at Kiukiang, wrote in a despatch to His Majesty's Minister at Peking, dated the 14th January, 1926:- \"The few Chinese officials and merchants who have mentioned the question in conversation are sceptical of the possibility of abolishing likin in present circumstances. Kiangsi, as a matter of fact, offers a very good example of the difficulties to be encountered in attempting to abolish likin. With only one treaty port in the province, no customs surtax collected within its borders can possibly make good the amount now collected in likin. The deficiency would presumably have to be made good from the customs...\n\nRIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nLIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,\n\n&c.,\n\n \n*C..", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 510924, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-504-5 Study leave- amendments to General Orders 3-3-1927 - 27-2-1928", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-504-5 Study leave- amendments to General Orders 3-3-1927 - 27-2-1928", "content_text": "A f2 \n\n15 \n\nCONFIDENTIAL. \n\nC.O. 4th Meeting (1927). \n\nCOLONIAL OFFICE CONFERENCE, 1927. \n\nCopy No. 16 \n\nSTENOGRAPHIC NOTES OF THE FOURTH MEETING HELD AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE ON THE 11TH MAY, 1927, AT 4 P.M. \n\nPresent: \n\nThe Right Hon. L. S. AMERY, M.P., Secretary of State for the Colonies (in the Chair). \n\nThe Right Hon. W. ORMSBY GORE, M.P., Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies. \n\nSir GRAEME THOMSON, K.C.B., Governor, Nigeria. \n\nLieut.-Colonel Sir E. W. M. GRIGG, K.C.V.O., C.M.G., D.S.O., M.C., Governor, Kenya. \n\nSir D. C. CAMERON, K.C.M.G., K.B.E., Governor, Tanganyika Territory. \n\nSir H. A. BYATT, K.C.M.G., Governor, Trinidad. \n\nMr. H. C. LUKE, C.M.G., Colonial Secretary, Sierra Leone. \n\nMr. R. S. D. RANKINE, C.M.G., Chief Secretary, Nyasaland. \n\nMr. R. POPHAM LOBE, C.M.G., Colonial Secretary, Cyprus. \n\nMr. E. B. ALEXANDER, C.M.G., Controller of Revenue, Ceylon. \n\nMr. H. MARRIOTT, C.M.G., Colonial Secretary, Straits Settlements. \n\nLieut.-Colonel W. B. DAVIDSON-HOUSTON, C.M.G., Administrator, St. Lucia, representing Windward Islands. \n\nMr. E. BAYNES, O.B.E., Colonial Secretary, Leeward Islands. \n\nSir HENRY LAMBERT, K.C.M.G., C.B., Senior Crown Agent for the Colonies. \n\nBrig.-General Sir S. H. WILSON, K.C.M.G., K.B.E., C.B., Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies. \n\nBrig.-General Sir F. GORDON GUGGISBERG, K.C.M.G., D.S.O., Governor, Gold Coast. \n\nSir H. J. STANLEY, K.C.M.G., Governor, Northern Rhodesia. \n\nBrig.-General Sir JOSEPH BYRNE, K.B.E., C.B., Governor, Seychelles. \n\nMr. W. C. F. ROBERTSON, C.M.G., Governor, Barbados. \n\nMr. E. B. JARVIS, C.M.G., Chief Secretary, Uganda. \n\nMr. E. COSTLEY-WHITE, O.B.E., Chief Secretary, Zanzibar. \n\nMr. E. MILLS, O.B.E., Assistant Chief Secretary, Palestine. \n\nMr. R. O. WINSTEDT, C.M.G., D.Litt., Director of Education, Malay States. \n\nMr. S. B. B. McELDERRY, Cadet Officer, Class II, Hong Kong. \n\nMr. H. HENNIKER-HEATON, Colonial Secretary, Bermuda. \n\nMr. J. N. OLIPHANT, Conservator of Forests, British Honduras. \n\nSir GILBERT GRINDLE, K.C.M.G., C.B., Deputy to Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies. \n\nMr. W. C. BOTTOMLEY, C.B., C.M.G., O.B.E., Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office. \n\nThe following were also present: \n\nCaptain the Hon. B. E. H. CLIFFORD, C.M.G., M.V.O., Imperial Secretary, South Africa. \n\nMajor R. D. FURSE, D.S.O., Private Secretary (Appointments) to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. \n\nColonel C. W. G. WALKER, D.S.O., Secretary, Governors' Conference, East Africa. \n\nDr. A. T. STANTON, Chief Medical Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. \n\nMr. D. CAIRD, C.B.E., Director of Information, Colonial Office. \n\nMr. W. D. ELLIS, C.M.G., Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office. \n\nMr. A. J. HARDING, O.B.E., Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office. \n\nMr. O. G. R. WILLIAMS, Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office. \n\n(62483d) \n\nMr. E. B. BOYD, Secretary to the Conference. \n\nMr. G. H. CREASY, Deputy Secretary. \n\nN", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-504-5 Study leave- amendments to General Orders 3-3-1927 - 27-2-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 554268, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937", "page_number": 66, "title": "CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937", "content_text": "# Witness List\n\n## List of Witnesses and Their Descriptions\n\n| Witness | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mr. D. M. Lewis | |\n| Mr. Wilfred Buckley, C.B.E. | Chairman of Council, Amalgamated Master Dairymen, Limited |\n| Dr. W. G. Savage, B.Sc., D.P.H. | Medical Officer of Health, Somerset |\n| Professor J. C. Drummond, D.Sc., F.I.C. | Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Medical Scientists, University College, London |\n| Professor Sir Frederick Hobday, C.M.G., F.R.C.V.S., F.R.S.E. | Principal and Dean of the Royal Veterinary College, London |\n| Dr. A. T. R. Mattick, B.Sc., Ph.D. | Head of the Bacteriological Department, National Institute for Research in Dairying, Reading |\n| Dr. Nathan Raw, C.M.G., B.S., F.R.C.S., M.R.C.P. | Member of the Council of the International Union against Tuberculosis |\n| Sir William Wilcox, K.C.I.E., C.B., C.M.G., M.D. | Medical Adviser to the Home Office |\n| Miss Olga Nethersole, R.R.C. | Founder and Honorary Organiser of the People's League of Health |\n| Dr. R. Veitch Clark, M.B., Ch.B., D.P.H. | Medical Officer of Health, Manchester |\n| Dr. Norman C. Wright | Director, the Hannah Dairy Research Institute |\n| Professor S. H. Gaiger, F.R.C.V.S. | Department of Animal Pathology, University of Liverpool |\n| Mr. James Mackintosh, O.B.E. | Head of Dairy Husbandry Department, National Institute for Research in Dairying, Reading |\n| Dr. F. G. Minett, D.Sc., M.R.C.V.S. | Director, Research Institute in Animal Pathology, Royal Veterinary College |\n| Mr. W. Cassels Jack | Member of Central Executive Committee, National Farmer's Union of Scotland |\n| Mr. Hugh Begg, F.R.C.V.S. | Representatives of the Scottish Society of Veterinary Inspectors |\n| Mr. A. Douglas, M.R.C.V.S. | Chief Veterinary Officer, West Riding County Council |\n| Mr. D. G. Barbour, Secretary | |\n| Mr. D. S. Rabagliati, F.R.C.V.S. | Director of Agriculture, West Sussex County Council |\n| Mr. William Lawson | Scottish Chamber of Agriculture |\n| Mr. T. G. Wilson | |\n| Sir Frederick Hobday, C.M.G., F.R.C.V.S., F.R.S.E. | Principal and Dean, Royal Veterinary College |\n| Mr. J. Hammond | Physiologist, Animal Nutrition Institute, Cambridge |\n| Mr. W. S. Mansfield | Director, University Farm, Cambridge |\n\n## Continued List of Witnesses and Their Descriptions\n\n| Witness | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mr. R. E. Glover | Institute of Animal Pathology, Cambridge |\n| Dr. J. B. Orr, F.R.S. | Director, Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen |\n| Lieutenant-Colonel J. P. Simpson, D.S.O., F.R.C.V.S. | Representatives of the National Veterinary Medical Association of Great Britain and Ireland |\n| Mr. G. P. Male, M.R.C.V.S. | Representatives of the National Veterinary Medical Association of Great Britain and Ireland |\n| Dr. J. J. Buchan | Medical Officer of Health, Bradford |\n| Dr. Thomas Orr | Medical Officer of Health, Ealing |\n| Mr. D. S. Rabagliati, F.R.C.V.S. | Chief Veterinary Officer, West Riding County Council |\n| Mr. G. C. L. Elliston | Executive Secretary, Society of Medical Officers of Health |\n| Dr. A. S. M. Macgregor, O.B.E. | Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow, President, Scottish Branch of the Society of Medical Officers of Health |\n| Dr. W. G. Clark | Assistant Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow, Hon. Secretary, Scottish Branch of the Society of Medical Officers of Health |\n| Mr. E. P. Everest, M.B.E. | Vice-Chairman, Executive Council, Rural District Councils Association |\n| Professor Share Jones, F.R.C.V.S. | Director of Veterinary Studies, School of Veterinary Science, University of Liverpool |\n| Mr. R. A. Howson | Assistant Secretary, Parliamentary Committee of the Co-operative Congress |\n| Mr. G. Walworth | Agricultural Adviser of the Co-operative Union |\n| Mr. Ernest C. King | Clerk and Solicitor to the Coulsdon and Purley Urban District Council |\n| Dr. F. R. Edbrooke | Medical Officer of Health, accompanied by |\n| Mr. H. Buxton | Sanitary Inspector, accompanied by |\n| Dr. R. Seligman | The Aluminium Plant and Vessel Company |\n| Mr. D. Cumming, M.R.C.V.S. | Representatives of the Scottish Branch of the National Veterinary Medical Association of Great Britain and Ireland |\n| Mr. W. Nairn, M.R.C.V.S. | Representatives of the Scottish Branch of the National Veterinary Medical Association of Great Britain and Ireland |\n| Major J. G. McGregor, M.R.C.V.S. | Representatives of the Scottish Branch of the National Veterinary Medical Association of Great Britain and Ireland |\n| Mr. F. Dent (Essex) | Chairman of the Agricultural Committee of the Association of County Councils' Association |\n| Mr. J. Donaldson (Oxfordshire) | Representatives of the County Councils' Association |\n| Mr. J. D. Davidson | Director of Agriculture, Glamorgan |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 576984, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945", "content_text": "26. J.O.\n\nF4/05/88/10\n\n27. Ir Sterndale Bennett (F. J)\n\n28. 2.6.\n\n29. 7.0.\n\n30. 7.0.\n\n31. J.V.\n\n32.\n\nSee Page 3 Counsels of (82)\n\nSeen.\n\namit ell 10/8\n\nF/917/10 Jel. 830 to Chunghing\n\nF. 4547/917/10 Tel. 837 to Ching hing\n\n17\n\n30.7.45\n\n8.45.\n\n4.8.4\n\nmy\n\n6.8.45.\n\ne/Tel. 803 fm. Chungking - 11-8. has\n\nc/Tel. 841 to Chingkung - 13.8.45\n\nminutes of meeting held at Iverna Office on 3rd August, 1945-\n\n28 31\n\nMr. Frere.\n\nI understand that (32) was sent to Colonel Cole on a new file. He may not know, therefore, of the background to the meeting which was held in the Foreign Office on the 3rd August. I do not want to trouble him again, but I think you should know, if you do not already, of the proposal to establish a Liaison Mission with the advance headquarters of Chinese and American forces. It appeared from the meeting that the first duty of the proposed Mission would be to assist in the relief and rehabilitation of British subjects in liberated Chinese territories.\n\n2. I do not know whether in the new circumstances this project is being pursued but as you are in touch with Mr. Davidson, you will probably know and will be able to say whether it is one which could be of use in our plans for the relief of prisoners of war and internees in Hong Kong.\n\n16th August, 1945.\n\nfor political reasons\n\nThe sending of welfare teams from India & H.K. is apparently ruled out until the colony is surrendered to the British Naval force being sent there.\n\nOnce the Navy is there, and the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 581862, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-594-8 A G H Sment- report on medical activities and problems 16-12-1945 - 18-2-1946", "page_number": 2, "title": "CO129-594-8 A G H Sment- report on medical activities and problems 16-12-1945 - 18-2-1946", "content_text": "54. Copy of `16012`\n\n14. Original Medical\n\n23. From Mark Young\n\nTo. Sir Mark Young\n\nMr's Reston\n\n3\n\n4 St.\n\nSt. Nole\n\nHolk by\n\nMedical Report by\n\nDr. Smart.\n\n2\n\n• `1571/46`\n11/1/16\n1/1/50\n\nMr Robertson\n\nDr. Smart's very interesting Report and Recommendations on the health situation in Hong Kong deals with 15 different aspects of the subject.\n\nIn section 1 devoted to personnel Dr. Smart stresses the urgent need for Health officers about which we have also had telegrams from Brigadier MacDougall. He also refers to the need for a Veterinary Officer, Sanitary Inspectors, qualified Clerical Assistants and an additional Pharmaceutical Chemist. These are matters for the Personnel Department and in order to save time I suggest that Mr. B.D. Edmunds should retain one or the spare copies of the Report at the back of this file and should consider separately section 1 on personnel.\n\nSimilarly I suggest that a second spare copy of the Report should go to Colonel Darby to consider and take action on section 2 which refers to medical supplies.\n\nMr. Davidson should see the sections on pages 6 and 13 concerned with venereal disease. (In this connection I might mention that a savingram has just been received from the C.C.A.O. asking for supplies of penicillin extra to the Young Estimates for the treatment of V.D.)\n\nMiss Darlow will wish to see the Report generally with its emphasis on the urgency of the housing problem and particularly section 15 devoted to social welfare and relief.\n\nWould Miss Darlow and Mr. Davidson say if they wish to retain a copy of the Report.\n\nI have had a copy of the first paragraph in section 5 made for file `S4/45/4` on which proposals for a new constitution are being considered.\n\nDr. Smart's recommendations in section 7 on the need for a suitably qualified officer to look into the question of food production has been anticipated by the offer to Dr. Herklots of the new post of Secretary for Development. In this capacity, Dr. Herklots will be responsible for fisheries (industry and research), forestry, agriculture, and nutrition.\n\nMr. Sabine should see section 8 in which the recommendation is made that an officer should be appointed to direct and control propaganda concerning the social causes of disease and their remedy.\n\nWith regard to Dr. Smart's recommendations in section 12 on higher medical education in relation to Hong Kong University, an ad hoc Advisory Committee has just been appointed by the Secretary of State to look into and to advise on the variety of matters referred to by Dr. Smart. No action is needed on this section of his Report but I would propose that a copy...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-594-8 A G H Sment- report on medical activities and problems 16-12-1945 - 18-2-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]