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No. 298.-His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to appoint Lance-Sergeant ROBERT KEITH VALENTINE to be Second Lieutenant in the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, with effect from 23rd May, 1928.
25th May, 1928.
No. 299.-His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has, in accordance with instructions received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, been pleased to recognise Monsieur LUIGI DE DIONIGI as Vice-Consul for Italy in Hong Kong.
25th May, 1928.
No. 300.-His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to recognise Mr. José Gascoy Ch. GONZALEZ DE BERNEDO, provisionally and pending the issue of His Majesty's Exequatur, as honorary Consul for Guatemala in Hong Kong.
25th May, 1928.
NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. 301.-The following Order of His Majesty in Council which appeared in the Loudon Gazette of the 27th March. 1928, is published for general information.
MERCHANT SHIPPING.
PASSENGER STEAMER CERTIFICATION.
THE MERCHANT SHIPPING PASSENGER STEAMERS (Hong Kong) Order, 1923.
AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,
THE 22ND DAY OF MARCH, 1928.
PRESENT:
THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.
W HEREAS by Section 284 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. e.
60), it is provided that, where the legislature of any British Possession pro- vides for the survey of, and grant of certificates for, passenger steamers, and the Board of Trade report to His Majesty the King that they are satisfied that the certificates are to the like effect, and are granted after a like survey, and in such manner as to be equally efficient with the certificates granted for the same purpose in the United Kingdom under that Act, His Majesty, by Order in Council, may,--
(1) Declare that the certificates granted in the said British Possession shall be
of the same force as if granted under that Act; and
(2) Declare that all or any of the provisions of Part III of that Act which relate to passenger steamer's certificates shall, either without modification or with such modifications as to His Majesty may seem necessary, apply to the certificates granted in the said British Possession; and