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CONFIDENTIAL
Des Andows,
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RECEIVED IN REGISTRY N51
APR 1974
11KK 14/3
GOVERNMENT HOUSE
HONG KONG
11th April 1974
MR. ALAN ELLIS
to me with take
Rgs
8/24/4
Jack Cater has shown me your letter PA
to him of 14th February, the subject being the terms of the reply to be sent to Mr. Royle on whether Mr. Ellis's case should be referred to the Commission against Corruption. I return your draft reply with some suggested amendments.
2.
Before agreeing the draft I had a fresh look through this voluminous file, and for what it is worth set out my conclusions below.
3.
Mr. Ellis's main complaint is that, as a probationer in the Police Force his employment was wrongly terminated in 1963 on the grounds that he was unsuited to be a policeman. His complaint was the subject of a careful enquiry whose results were con- sidered by Mrs. Eirene White in 1965 and the complaint was rejected by her. The termination of Ellis's service was entirely within the terms of his contract of service. I might add that the picture of Mr. Ellis that emerges from the two reports on his allegations, the first by Mr. Rolph and the second by Mr. Tyrer, does suggest to me that whatever his virtues and shortcomings may have been, he was not temperamentally suited to a disciplined service.
4.
I presume it is agreed that the
administrative issue of the termination of his employment is closed, but in any case there could be no question of this, as an administrative matter, being referred to the Commission against Corruption.
5.
But in his complaint he made wider allegations about mal-administration and corruption. Mrs. White's instructions, Mr. Higham in his letter of 17th March 1965, asked the Hong Kong Government for a further enquiry on certain of these allegations, and this was the subject of the second report by Mr. Tyrer.
A.C. Stuart Esq.
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