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officers, 530 other ranks, and 128 schoolmasters, trade in- structors, clerks, storekeepers, mechanics and others.
After Care. The Salvation Army and Family Welfare Society continued their work among adult prisoners. A Dis- charged Prisoners' Aid Society was registered, and it is hoped that the Society will co-ordinate and extend the work done by such voluntary agencies.
After-Care of boys discharged from the Training Centres is in the hands of the After-Care Officer who in difficult conditions carried a heavy case load with much success.
RECORDS
The Registrar General's Department, situated in the Supreme Court Building, comprises the Land Office, the Registries of Births and Deaths, Marriages, Companies, Trade Marks and Patents, and the Offices of the Official Receiver in Bankruptcy and Companies Winding Up, the Official Trustee, the Judicial Trustee, and the Official Solicitor in Lunacy.
Land Office. The principal function of the Land Office is the registration of all instruments affecting land in Hong Kong, Kowloon and New Kowloon; instruments affecting land in the New Territories (other than New Kowloon) being registered in one or other of the three District Offices. Although the system of registration under the Land Regis- tration Ordinance is basically one of registration of deeds and not of title, the Land Office Registers do in fact show in a clear and accurate manner the devolution of title to each lot, or section of a lot, and details of all incumbrances affecting it. The result is that, in practice, the system is regarded as virtually equivalent to registration of title. Land tenure is described in Chapters 7 and 10.
Among the other functions of the Land Office are the issue, renewal, variation and termination of title to all Crown land in the Colony other than in the New Territories,