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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 19, 1921.
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
No. 352.- His Majesty the KING has not been advised to exercise his power of disallowance with respect to the following Ordinance :-
Ordinance No. 6 of 1921.—An Ordinance to provide for the transference of
property, rights and powers to successive holders of the office of Custodian of Enemy Property.
S. B. B. McELDERRY,
Clerk of Councils.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
16th August, 1921.
APPOINTMENTS, &c.
No. 353.-His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Mr. ERIC RICE to be his Private Secretary, with effect from the 15th August, 1921.
16th August, 1921.
No. 354.-His Majesty the KING has been pleased to approve the appointment of the Honourable Mr. HERBERT WILLIAM BIRD to be an Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council during the absence on leave of the Honourable Mr. EDWARD VICTOR DAVID PARR.
19th August, 1921.
NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. 355. His Excellency the Governor has received a telegram from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the effect that an Order of His Majesty the King in Council was issued on the 10th August, 1921, ordering that the 26th July, 1921, shall be treated as the date of the termination of war between His Majesty and Hungary.
No. 356.-With reference to Government Notification No. 346, published in the Gazette of the 12th August, 1921, a telegram has been received by His Excellency the Governor from the Secretary of State for the Colonics to the effect that an Order of Hist Majesty the King in Council has been issued under the Termination of the Present War (Definition) Act, 1918, ordering that the 31st August, 1921, shall be treated as the date of the termination of the present war, that is to say, the 31st August, 1921, is the day at midnight on which the present war will end. The Order further provides that nothing in the Order shall affect relations between His Majesty and the Ottoman Empire until the ratification of the Treaty of Peace with that Empire shall have been exchanged or deposited.
19th August, 1921.
CLAUD SEVERN,
Colonial Secretary.