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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 2, 1938.
No. 684
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
It is hereby notified that the application to Hong Kong of the International Convention respecting Load Lines, signed in London on the 5th July, 1930, was noted in the archives of the Foreign Office on 1st July, 1938, and will take effect in accordance with the first paragraph of Article 21 of the Convention on 1st September, 1938.
2nd September, 1938.
N. L. SMITH,
Colonial Secretary.
No. 685.
Order under section 75 (8) of the Public Health (Sanita- tion) Ordinance, 1935, Ordinance No. 15 of 1935, made by the Colonial Secretary on the 31st day of August, 1938.
WHEREAS I, NORMAN LOCKHART SMITH, Esquire, Com- panion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Colonial Secretary of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies, deem it expedient for the execution of a public purpose to remove all graves in that portion of Section A in New Kowloon Cemetery No. 3 (Cheung Sha Wan Cemetery) in which bodies were buried during the years 1930 and 1931, NOW. I, by this Order under my hand, by virtue of the power in that behalf vested in me by section 75 (8) of the Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance, 1935, DO HEREBY ORDER AND DIRECT that the said graves be removed to the satisfac- tion of the Director of Public Works by the Sanitary Depart- ment and that the remains removed from such graves shall be re-interred or disposed of in such manner as the Secretary for Chinese Affairs in consultation with the Chairman. Urban Council, and the Board of Direction of the Tung Wah Hospital shall think fit and that all reasonable expenses in connection with such removal, re-interment and disposal shall be defrayed out of the public revenue of the Colony.
Given under my hand this 31st day of August, 1938.
COLONIAL SECRETARIAT,
HONG KONG.
N. L. SMITH,
Colonial Secretary.