THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 21, 1915.
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NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. 224. It is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to exclude the Police Magistrates' Department from the operation of the Holidays Ordi- nance, 1912, (Ordinance No. 5 of 1912), on Monday, the 24th day of May, 1915.
No. 225. It is hereby notified that the road ascending the hill on the east side of Happy Valley and giving access to houses on Inland Lots Nos. 1911, 1946, 1947, etc., shall in future be known as "Broadwood Road".
No. 226. The following addition to the Register of Medical Practitioners entitled to practise Medicine in this Colony, published in Government Notification No. 201 of the 7th May, 1915, pursuant to Ordinances No. 1 of 1884 and No. 31 of 1914, is published for general information :-
PERSON QUALIFIED TO PRACTISE MEDICINE.
NAME.
ADDRESS.
Randolph James Elliot Paterson.
Nethersole Hospital.
QUALIFICATIONS.
Bachelor of Surgery and Bachelor of Medicine of the University of Edinburgh.
DATE OF QUALIFICATION. (United Kingdom.)
18th December, 1911.
No. 227. The following Notice is published for general information.
21st May, 1915.
CLAUD SEVERN,
Colonial Secretary.
BRITISH CONSULAR NOTIFICATION.
British subjects residing in the Consular District of Canton are hereby notified that all British passports issued prior to the 5th August, 1914, and held by British subjects in China will become invalid on the 1st August next.
Holders of such passports in this Consular District are required to apply to the undersigned for fresh passports on the official form of application which can be obtained at the Consulate-General.
The new form of passport requires the insertion of a description of the holder. His photograph and signature must also be affixed thereto, and a duplicate copy of the photo- graph should be provided for retention at the Consulate-General.
Only the wife and children under the age of 16 may be included on the holder's passport and in such cases the particulars, photograph (in duplicate) and specimen signature of wife, and names, ages and sex of children, are required to be inserted. All other persons must obtain separate passports.
The fee chargeable for a passport will be five shillings.
The new form of passport will be valid for two years only, but may be renewed for four further periods of two years each.
Passports which have been issued since the 5th August, 1914, will be regarded as valid for two years only from the date of their issue.
CECIL KIRKE,
Acting Consul-General,
H.B.M. Consulate-General,
CANTON, 18th May, 1915.