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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 20, 1914.
APPOINTMENTS, &c.
No. 455. His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint, under the pro- visions of Section 10 of the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884, (Ordinance No. 1 of 1884), Mr. STANLEY H. DODWELL to be a Member of the Medical Board for a term of three years, with effect from the 16th November, 1914.
16th November, 1914.
No. 456.-His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Captain H. R. O. WALKER, 25th Punjabis, to be Inspecting Officer of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps, with effect from the 14th November, 1914.
18th November, 1914.
NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. 457.-It is hereby notified that the following Notification was issued by the Foreign Office on the 16th September and appeared in the London Gazette of the 18th September :-
FOREIGN OFFICE,
16th September, 1914.
His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs has received communica- tions from the United States Ambassador informing him that during the present hostilities the German and Austro-Hungarian Governments will treat as absolute or conditional contraband those objects and materials which are enumerated in Articles 22 and 24 of the Declaration of London.
14th November, 1914.
CLAUD SEVERN,
Colonial Secretary.
SUPREME COURT.
No. 458.-It is hereby notified that His Honour Sir WILLIAM REES DAVIES, Knight, Chief Justice, in and for the Colony of Hongkong, has been pleased to appoint THOMAS HENRY KING, Assistant Superintendent of Police, STEWART BUCKLE CARNE Ross, District Officer, and SAMUEL BURNSIDE BOYD MCELDERRY, Assistant District Officer, to be Commis- sioners to administer oaths and take declarations, affirmations, and attestations of honour in Hongkong, so long as they shall continue to hold their respective offices as aforesaid.
C. D. MELBOURNE,
Registrar.
20th November, 1914.
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