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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 3, 1930.
3. Will the Government contradict (or otherwise) the report in the Press that Military Guards on merchant vessels trading in these waters are shortly to be withdrawn?
4. If the report is correct, and in view of this latest piratical attack on the steamer Haiching, will the Government make strong representations to the Military or other Authorities to reconsider their decision?
The Colonial Secretary replied as follows:-
1 and 2. These matters will receive sympathetic consideration at the hands of the Government as soon as the enquiry into the circumstances of the Piracy have been completed.
3. It is understood to be the policy of His Majesty's Government that the
Guards should be withdrawn on the 1st of April next.
4. The Hong Kong Government will give careful consideration to such representations on this point as may be made by the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce or by British shipping firms.
MOTIONS.
6. The Attorney General moved the following resolution :-
Resolved that the Standing Rules and Orders of the Legislative Council o Hong Kong made by the Legislative Council on the 7th day of March, 1912, in pursuance of clause XIX of the Royal Instructions of the 19th day of January, 1888, and amended by the Legislative Council on the 29th day of January, 1920, be repealed, and that the Standing Orders, a draft of which was laid on the table of the Council on the 5th day of December, 1929, and a copy of which has been signed by the Clerk of Councils, be substituted therefor.
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
His Excellency the Governor-If no member wishes to raise any point of prin-
ciple, the Attorney General will move that the Council go into Committee. Council in Committee to consider the Standing Orders clause by clause. The following paragraph was added to Standing Order 31-"(5) The President, or the Chairman as the case may be, may require any proposed amendment to be handed to the Clerk in writing."
The following words "Subject to the provisions of paragraph (7) of Standing
Order 27," were inserted at the beginning of Standing Order 33.
On Council resuming, the Attorney General reported that the draft Standing
Orders had passed through Committee with amendments.
The resolution was adopted.
7. Printers and Publishers Amendment Bill.-The Attorney General addressed the Council and moved the First reading of a Bill intituled "An Ordinance to amend the Printers and Publishers Ordinance, 1927.”
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a first time.
8. Church of England Trust Bill.-The Hon. Sir HENRY E. POLLOCK, Kt., K.C., addressed the Council and moved the First reading of a Bill intituled “An Ordinance to incorporate a Body of Trustees capable of holding property for the purposes of the Church of England, and to provide for the perform- ance of divine worship according to the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England, and, for certain objects ancillary to the aforesaid objects." The Hon. Mr. J. OWEN HUGHES seconded..
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a first time.