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CITY AND N.T ADMINISTRATION
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Notes on Sources and Method
INDEX
Page
1
Historical Notes
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Official Records
The History of the Hong Kong Government Gazette
Posts in Chronological Order of Establishment
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Governor
Colonial Secretary.
Financial Secretary
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Colonial Secretariat
20
Deputy Colonial Secretary
20
Political Adviser
Deputy Financial Secretary
Deputy Economic Secretary
Establishment Officer
Defence Secretary
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25
26
27
Principal Assistant Colonial Secretary (General)
28
Principal Assistant Colonial Secretary (Lands) Principal Assistant Colonial Secretary (Social Services) Clerk of Councils
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28
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Director of Organizational Surveys Unit
Commissioner of Banking
Agriculture and Fisheries
Audit
Census and Statistics
32
Civil Aviation
33
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29
30
31
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Page
Civil Defence
34
Treasury
65
Commerce and Industry
35
Urban Services
66
Hong Kong Government Office, London
36
Judiciary
71
Education
37
Chief Justice.
71
Fire Services.
38
Registrar, Supreme Court
72
Government Supplies
39
Departments which have been abolished or absorbed
73
Housing
Lieutenant-Governors
75
40
Immigration .
41
Co-operatives and Marketing.
76
Information Services
42
Custodian of Property
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78
Inland Revenue
43
Development.
Labour.
Ecclesiastical Department
80
44
81
Legal
45
Magistracy
82
Marine.
Statistics
46
Medical and Health
47
Supplies, Trade and Industry
83
New Territories
48
Post Office
49
Supplies and Distribution War-time Boards and Appointments
84
Printing
50
Prisons
51
Public Works
52
Radio Hong Kong
53
Railway
54
Rating and Valuation
55
Registrar General's Department
56
Registration of Persons.
57
Registry of Trade Unions
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Resettlement.
59
Royal Hong Kong Police
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Royal Observatory
Secretariat for Home Affairs.
Social Welfare
Transport
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NOTES ON SOURCES AND METHOD
The first edition of this book was published in 1967 and contained the names and dates of appointment of all heads of department from 1841 until December 1966. This second edition brings the list up to date (September 1969) and also corrects some inaccuracies in the first edition.
Sources
2. The best source of information is the Hong Kong Government Gazette, but the task of searching through some 6,000 weekly copies of the Gazette would be too time-consuming, and certain short cuts have therefore been used.
3. Until 1948 a list of past and present heads of department appeared in the annual Civil Service List, but these lists have three deficiencies:
(a) they do not contain the names of officers appointed (perhaps without full authority) between 1841 and the granting of the first Charter on 5th April, 1843, which authorized the Governor to make appointments;
(b) they contain only the year, and not the day or month, of appoint-
ment;
(c) they are sometimes inaccurate.
4. The 1948 Civil Service List nevertheless provided a starting-point. More detailed information has been obtained from:
(a) Blue Books;
(b) Civil Service Lists;
(c) Staff Lists;
(d) Hong Kong Government Gazette;
(e) 'History of the Laws and Courts of Hong Kong' by J. W.
Norton-Kyshe (1898);
(ƒ) 'Europe in China', by E. J. Eitel.
Method
5. In general, only substantive appointments have been included. Posts were sometimes left vacant, or filled on an acting basis, when the substantive holder was on leave or had retired. It cannot therefore be
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assumed that in all cases an officer held the post until the date of appoint- ment of his successor. In certain cases where an acting appointment was subsequently converted into a substantive appointment (e.g. on the death of the former holder of the post), the date on which the officer first assumed duty in an acting capacity has been used. During the last century the wording of Gazette notices varied considerably, and the exact date of appointment is not always clear.
6. Cadet/Administrative Officer appointments have caused some difficulty. Until 1920 Cadets were appointed substantively to posts, in common with all other officers. Since 1920 they have been appointed to ranks and then posted to various offices; they thus hold their rank, but not their post, substantively. Nevertheless in practice some officers have returned to the same post after periods of leave, another officer tempo- rarily serving during their absence, and have consequently been regarded virtually as substantive holders of the post. In such cases the officers holding the post temporarily have been included in brackets. Short acting appointments have been omitted.
7. The posts of Secretary for Home Affairs and Financial Secretary, although normally filled from the Administrative Service, are substantive appointments.
8. An asterisk denotes that the officer served in Hong Kong as a member of the Hong Kong Cadet Service, now known as the Adminis- trative Service.
9. Some departments began as a section of a larger department. In such cases the names of the officers who headed the section are included. 10. The honours not in brackets were held while the officer was serving in this particular appointment. Honours in brackets were awarded subsequently; e.g. after he had been promoted to some higher post or in some cases after he had left Hong Kong.
11. Heads of Branches in the Colonial Secretariat, who are broadly equivalent to heads of department, are also included from the date on which the branch was established.
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Comments and suggestions from several readers of the first edition have been helpful. Any further comments or corrections should be sent to the Establishment Officer, Colonial Secretariat, Hong Kong.
September, 1969.
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G. C. HAMILTON, Colonial Secretariat.
HISTORICAL NOTES
The post of 'Chief Superintendent of China Trade' was created by 'An Act to regulate the Trade to China and India' enacted on 28th August, 1833, for purposes of trade and amicable intercourse with dominions of the Emperor of China.
By Circular dated 20th January, 1841, Captain Charles Elliot, RN, Chief Superintendent of Trade and Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary in China, announced the cession of Hong Kong to the British Crown; formal possession of the Island was taken on 26th January, 1841.
On 2nd February, 1841, Captain Elliot, on board H.M.S. Wellesley at anchor in Hong Kong Bay, proclaimed that 'pending Her Majesty's further pleasure, the government of the said island shall devolve upon, and be exercised by, the person filling the office of Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British subjects in China for the time being.'
Captain Elliot then proceeded to appoint certain officers to assist in the government of the island.
The first appointment to be made was that of Chief Magistrate of Hong Kong. Captain William Caine of the 26th (Cameronian) Regiment of Infantry was appointed to this post on 30th April, 1841, and by the terms of his warrant was practically constituted Chief of the Police and of the Gaol. He subsequently became Colonial Secretary in 1846 and Lieutenant-Governor in 1854.
On 22nd June, 1841, Mr. A. R. Johnston, Deputy Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, assumed charge of the Govern- ment of the island on behalf of the Chief Superintendent.
On 31st July, 1841, Lieutenant William Pedder, RN, was appointed Harbour Master and Marine Magistrate.
On 12th August, 1841, Sir Henry Pottinger took up his appointment in Macau as Chief Superintendent of Trade in succession to Captain Elliot but left Mr. A. R. Johnston charged with the government of the island of Hong Kong, with the title of Deputy Superintendent, until 27th February, 1842, when Sir Henry moved his headquarters from Macau to Hong Kong and personally supervised its affairs.
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On 25th August, 1841, Mr. T. G. Fitzgibbon was appointed Clerk-in Charge of the Post Office. It is not quite clear whether he personally was appointed Postmaster General before his death six weeks later. But it is reasonably certain that the title of Postmaster General is the longest established title in Hong Kong. This was followed in 1842 by the appointment of a Colonial Treasurer.
By September 1841, a Land Officer, Captain George F. Mylius, had been appointed, but the post was temporarily abolished in May 1842 and was replaced by a Land and Road Inspector on 27th May, 1842. On 10th April, 1843, a Land Officer, Mr. Richard Woosnam, was again appointed.
These early appointments were made before the first Charter was granted to the Colony and appear to have been made without full authority. They do not appear in the list of heads of department in the 1948 Civil Service List.
The first Charter of the Colony of Hong Kong, granted by Queen Victoria on 5th April, 1843, and promulgated by a Proclamation of Sir Henry Pottinger on 26th June, 1843, erected the island of Hong Kong and its dependencies into a separate Colony, made provision for a Governor of the Colony, and authorized and empowered the Governor 'to constitute and appoint Judges, and, in cases requisite, Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer, Justices of the Peace, and other necessary Officers and Ministers in Our said Colony, for the due and impartial administra- tion of justice, and for putting the laws into execution'.
In accordance with these instructions, Sir Henry Pottinger, who assumed duties as Governor on 26th June, 1843, made a number of appointments on the same day:
Colonial Secretary (Lieut.-Col. G. A. Malcolm, CB), Chief Magistrate (Major William Caine),
Harbour Master and Marine Magistrate (Lieut. William Pedder, RN). The post of Deputy Superintendent of Trade was abolished and Mr. A. R. Johnston was appointed Assistant and Registrar to the Chief Superintendent.
It will be noted that the appointments of Caine and Pedder were in fact re-appointments to posts which they had held since 1841.
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Other appointments in 1843 were:
Lieutenant-Governor: Major General G. C. D'Aguilar, in addition to his command of the land
Colonial Surgeon :
Surveyor General Colonial Chaplain :
forces in China.
Alexander Anderson
:
A. T. Gordon
V. J. Stanton
On 22nd February, 1844, Captain Haly of the 41st Madras Native Infantry was appointed Superintendent of Police, in order to relieve the Chief Magistrate of his police duties, but this appointment lasted only until 1st March, 1844, when Haly was succeeded by Captain Bruce of the 18th Royal Irish Regiment.
There arrived by H.M.S. Spiteful on 7th May, 1844, Mr. J. F. Davis, the new Governor, Mr. F. W. A. Bruce, the new Colonial Secretary, Mr. J. W. Hulme, the first Chief Justice and Mr. R. D. Cay, Registrar of the Supreme Court.
The Attorney General, Mr. P. I. Sterling, arrived on 28th July, 1844, and the first Auditor General, Mr. A. E. Shelley, was appointed in the same year.
In 1845 Mr. Charles May took up his appointment as Captain Superin- tendent of Police, and Mr. S. T. Fearon became the first Registrar General--a post subsequently renamed Secretary for Chinese Affairs and later Secretary for Home Affairs.
This team was sufficient to administer the small Colony until 1858 when a post of Governor of the Gaol was created; and 1861 saw the arrival of the Superintendent of Government Gardens, an enlightened appointment in those early days. In 1862, Mr. F. Stewart was appointed Inspector of Schools, and in 1868 Charles May, who had left the Police on being appointed First Police Magistrate in July 1862, became the first Superintendent of Fire Brigade in addition to his other duties.
No further departments were created for 15 years, until 1883 when the Observatory and the Land Office were established. In the same year, Mr. J. M. Price, the Surveyor General, became the first President of the Sanitary Board; and Mr. W. H. Marsh, the Colonial Secretary, appointed as his Assistant Mr. (later Sir) J. H. Stewart Lockhart,
Then in 1886 an Assessor of Municipal Rates was appointed, and in 1887 a Superintendent of Imports and Exports.
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Thus by the end of the first fifty years the Governor was assisted by a Judiciary (Chief Justice, Puisne Judge, Chief Magistrate and Registrar), a Colonial Secretariat (Colonial Secretary, Colonial Treasurer and Assistant Colonial Secretary), and eighteen departments to deal with law, order and the protection of property (Attorney General, Captain Superintendent of Police, Superintendent of Fire Brigade, Superintendent of Victoria Gaol and Auditor General); to administer land and buildings (Surveyor General, Land Officer, Assessor of Municipal Rates); to assist trade and communications (Harbour Master, Superintendent of Imports and Exports and Postmaster General); to provide religious, social and municipal services (Colonial Chaplain, Colonial Surgeon, Inspector of Schools, Registrar General and President of Sanitary Board); and to make a contribution to scientific knowledge (Director of the Observatory and Superintendent of Government Gardens).
This ended the first period of expansion, for only three new depart- ments were established in the next 50 years: the Kowloon-Canton Railway in 1906, and air services and broadcasting in 1929.
In 1937/38 some changes were made. A Financial Secretary, Accountant General and Controller of Stores shared the duties previously under- taken by the Colonial Treasurer, a Superintendent of Inland Revenue was appointed, and a post of Labour Officer was created.
Between 1938 and 1941 some new temporary departments were created as a result of the War, such as an Air Raid Precautions Officer in 1938, a Chief Censor in 1939, a Commissioner of War Taxation and an Immigra- tion Officer in 1940, and a Defence Secretary (Mr. J. A. Fraser who won the Military Cross in the First World War and the George Cross in the Second World War) in 1941.
Hong Kong was under Japanese Administration from 25th December, 1941, until September, 1945, and this was followed by a British Military Administration until Civil Government was re-established on 1st May,
1946.
Immediately after the war a Custodian of Property was appointed to supervise enemy property; a Secretary for Development was appointed to supervise the agriculture, forestry, fisheries and gardens departments; and a Director of Supplies, Trade and Industry assisted the economic rehabilitation of the Colony. These three posts were subsequently abolished.
The post-war years have seen a steady increase in the number and size of departments: a Public Relations Officer (subsequently Director of Information Services) and a Social Welfare Officer (subsequently Director of Social Welfare) in 1947; a Director of Agriculture and Fisheries (under various titles) in 1948; a Commissioner of Registration of Persons and a Commissioner of the Essential Services Corps in 1948; a Government Printer in 1952; a Commissioner for Resettlement and a Registrar of Trade Unions in 1954; a Commissioner for Housing in 1957; a Census Commissioner (later Commissioner for Census and Statistics) in 1959; a Commissioner of Banking in 1964; and a Commis- sioner for Transport in 1965.
The Colonial Secretariat has been greatly expanded by the creation of several Branches, each under the control of an officer who is broadly equivalent to a head of department. The Secretariat now consists of the Establishment, Finance, Economic, Councils, Defence, Political, Lands, Social Services, General, Banking, and Organizational Surveys Branches. The Census and Transport Departments were originally formed as branches of the Secretariat.
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OFFICIAL RECORDS
Hong Kong Government Gazette (1853 – Present)
The Hong Kong Government Gazette was established on 24th Septem- ber, 1853, and is still published weekly, with an occasional 'Gazette Extraordinary' on special occasions.
(See page 10 for a history of the Gazette.)
Administrative Reports
1879-1883
1884 - 1908
Sessional Papers
1909-1930
1931 - 1939
1940-1941 1946 - 1949
Administrative Reports
Sessional Papers
Administration Reports
Sessional Papers
Sessional Papers
Sessional Papers
From 1853 to 1878 departmental reports were published in the Gazette. Administrative Reports were first published in 1879 and contained departmental reports and other papers laid before the Legislative Council.
Between 1884 and 1908 the volume was called 'Sessional Papers'.
From 1909 to 1939 departmental reports were published in volumes entitled 'Administrative Reports' (Administration Reports from 1931 - 1939), while other papers laid before the Legislative Council were published in a separate volume entitled 'Sessional Papers'.
No departmental reports were published between 1940 and 1945. From 1946 to date, departmental reports and the Colony Annual Report have been published individually and not in a bound volume.
Sessional Papers continued to be published in a bound volume until 1949, since when papers laid before the Legislative Council have been published individually.
Blue Book (1870 – 1940)
The Blue Book contained statistical material (now published in depart- mental reports or in Supplement No. 4 to the Gazette) and also particulars of staff.
Civil Service List (1904 – 1958)
Staff List (1959 to date)
The Civil Service List was first published in 1904, and contained General Orders. The second issue was published in 1906 and thereafter the volume was published annually until 1958. In 1959 the title was changed to Staff List.
Hong Kong Hansard (1890 to date)
In 1858 the Press was admitted to proceedings of the Legislative Council and a record was published in the Press. Hansard was first published in 1890.
Historical and Statistical Abstract of the Colony of Hong Kong
(1841-1930)
This Abstract was first published in 1906 in the Civil Service List, the early data having been taken largely from Dr. E. J. Eitel's 'Europe in China'. The Abstract provides a useful guide, but is inaccurate in respect of certain early appointments and should not be relied upon without confirmation from source material.
In 1910 it was decided that the Abstract should be printed as a separate publication once in every 10 years, the unexpired decade only appearing in the Civil Service List.
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THE HISTORY OF THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
May 1841-September 1853
The first Gazette was dated 1st March, 1841 and was mentioned in the Canton Press on 8th May, 1841. No copies of this Gazette have survived.
On 17th March, 1842 a new newspaper, the Friend of China made its first appearance and one week later carried a Government Notification to the effect that, henceforth, the Government Gazette would be published in that newspaper.
The contract was later transferred to the Hong Kong Registrar (formerly Canton Register).
From 20th February, 1845 until 21st September, 1853 the China Mail was the official organ for all Government Notifications. Copies of the China Mail for 5th June, 1845 and for 1846 to 1853 are held in the Colonial Secretariat library.
There still survives an Agreement made on 13th June, 1845, between Andrew SHORTREDE, Printer, and Her Majesty's Government, whereby Mr. Shortrede undertook 'to execute all printing which may be required by the said Government'. The Agreement, which was witnessed by Mr. A. E. SHELLEY, the Auditor General, specified a charge of 16 lines for one dollar for 'inserting Ordinances and Notifications in the Gazette', and a charge of $2 a page for printing 100 copies of these Ordinances and Notifications 'separately on foolscap, Government finding the paper, from the newspaper types remade up'.
It will be noted that this Agreement does not refer specifically to the China Mail, but does make reference to the 'Gazette' and to 'newspaper types'.
By an Agreement signed on 31st August, 1846, between Andrew SHORTREDE and Sir John Francis DAVIS, Governor of Hong Kong, and witnessed by William CAINE, Colonial Secretary, whereby the China Mail was acknowledged as the Gazette of the Hong Kong Government.
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The terms of the Agreement make it clear that Ordinances, Notifications, etc. were first published in the China Mail, and were subsequently reprinted from the newspaper types and supplied to the Government.
The preamble to this 1846 Agreement states that Mr. Shortrede under- took to print and publish all such official documents as may be sent to him for that purpose order of the said Sir John Francis Davis, according to the Terms and in the manner hereinafter specified, and the said Sir John Francis Davis agrees to the Conditions that the 'China Mail' Newspaper shall be the Official Government Gazette for the term of one year from the first day of October now next ensuing, and that the Printer and Publisher of the said 'China Mail' Newspaper shall have the exclusive right of doing all the printing required for the use of Her Majesty's Government in the Island of Hong Kong for and during the same period'. The Agreement was to continue in force until annulled by either party giving six months notice.
About three years later, on 19th December, 1849, the Colonial Secretary informed Mr. Shortrede that the Governor 'does not intend to renew the Contract for the Government job printing, but will employ for that service such press as to His Excellency may seem fit', but offered to renew the Agreement, on slightly modified terms, for printing Ordinances and Government Notifications. Mr. Shortrede agreed and the new arrange- ments came into force for a period of two years from 1st July, 1850, 'or for such further term as may be agreed on'.
Mr. Shortrede was permitted under this Agreement 'to insert in such Gazette after all official papers such Advertisements as may be sent to him for publication and for his own benefit, he being responsible for the tenor of such Advertisements'.
In accordance with the Colonial Secretary's letter of December 1849, separate tenders for job printing were called for. Mr. R. STRACHAN put in a tender on 20th December, 1849, but it is not clear whether his tender was accepted.
The Agreement with Mr. Shortrede for printing official notices appears to have remained in force until September 1853.
September 1853 – July 1855
The Hong Kong Government Gazette was first published on 24th September, 1853, and contained the following notification:
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"The Contract hitherto in force for the publication of Government Notifications having ceased on the 21st instant, notice is hereby given that the Hong Kong Government Gazette, this day establish- ed, will be hereafter the only Official Organ of Proclamations, Notifications, and all Public Papers of this Government.
Victoria, Hong Kong
24th September, 1853.
By Order
W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.
The Gazette was printed and published by Robert STRACHAN at the Hong Kong Register Office, Queen's Road, Hong Kong. It contained, in addition to Government notices, the dates of ship sailings.
July 1855 – 1859
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In July 1855 the Government returned to Mr. Shortrede for the printing of the Gazette. Under an Agreement dated 28th June, 1855, between Sir John BOWRING, Governor of Hong Kong, and Mr. Andrew Shortrede, the Printer agreed 'to print and publish all such documents as may be sent to him for that purpose by the Government, and such Documents shall be so printed and published in the form of a separate sheet or sheets to be called The Hong Kong Government Gazette'. The Gazette was to be published every Saturday.
Mr. Shortrede was 'at liberty to insert in such Gazette, after all official papers, such Advertisements as may be sent to him for publication and for his own benefit, he, the said Andrew Shortrede being responsible for the tenor of such Advertisements'. Consequently, the new series contained advertisements announcing the arrival in the Colony of hams, pickles, Yarmouth bloaters and old fruity port, but within a few years commercial advertisements of this type had disappeared.
All material for printing was to be sent for execution to the office of the China Mail.
December 1859 – December 1941
On 10th December, 1859 an Agreement in similar terms was made between Sir Hercules ROBINSON, Governor of Hong Kong, and Delfino NORONHA. The new series 'printed and published by D. Noronha, Government Printer', was first issued on 7th January, 1860, and continued
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until December 1941. In January 1868 D. Noronha became 'Noronha & Sons, Printers to the Hong Kong Government', and in July 1879 the firm became 'Noronha & Co.'
October 1945-April 1946
On 12th October, 1945, a new series appeared: Hong Kong (British Military Administration) Gazette, published by command of Brigadier D. M. MacDougall, Chief Civil Affairs Officer, on behalf of Rear Admiral Cecil Harcourt, CB, CBE, Commander in Chief and Head of the Military Administration, Hong Kong.
May 1946- December 1951
The Gazette in its pre-war form reappeared on 1st May, 1946, and was again printed by Noronha & Co.
January 1952 - Present
On the establishment of the Government Printing Department in January 1952, the Government Printer undertook the printing of the Hong Kong Government Gazette.
Much of this material was derived from the following original docu- ments, which were discovered in 1961 and are now lodged with the Registrar General:
No.
L11
Date
13. 6.1845
L 50
31. 8.1846
L 150
19.12.1849
L 151
L 202
20.12.1849 28. 6.1855
L 296
10.12.1859
Agreement between Andrew Shortrede and Her Britannic Majesty's Government for printing Government notices.
Contract between Sir John Francis Davis, Governor of Hong Kong, and Andrew Shortrede for publishing official documents.
Letter from the Colonial Secretary to Mr. Shortrede concerning the terms for printing.
Tender by Mr. R. Strachan for job printing. Agreement between Sir John Bowring, Governor of Hong Kong, and Andrew Shortrede for printing the Government Gazette.
Memorandum of Agreement between Sir Hercules Robinson, Governor of Hong Kong, and Delfino Noronha for printing the Government Gazette.
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POSTS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER OF ESTABLISHMENT
Date established
Post
Date established
Date of Change of Title
3. 3.1862
23. 5.1868
Post
Date of Change of Title
Inspector of Schools
Director of Education Superintendent of Fire Brigade Chief Officer Fire Brigade Director of Fire Services
8. 4.1909
1922
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26. 1.1841
Administrator
30. 4.1841
Chief Magistrate
2. 3.1883
Government Astronomer
First Police Magistrate
7. 7.1862
Senior Magistrate
12. 1.1940
Director of the Observatory Director of the Royal Observatory
31. 7.1841
25. 8.1841
Harbour Master
18. 4.1883
President of Sanitary Board
Director of Marine
14. 1.1948
Head of Sanitary Department
1. 4.1961
1887
1912
2.7.1908
Postmaster General
Chairman of Urban Council
1. 1.1936
1842
Colonial Treasurer
Financial Secretary
Chairman of Urban Council and Director of
Urban Services
1. 5.1953
16. 7.1937
26. 6.1843
16. 6.1883
Land Officer and Official Receiver
Governor
Land Officer
1912
26. 6.1843
Colonial Secretary
Registrar General
1. 4.1949
27.12.1843
Lieutenant-Governor
6. 8.1883
Assistant Colonial Secretary
1843
Colonial Surgeon
Principal Assistant Colonial Secretary
1930
Principal Civil Medical Officer
28. 6.1897
Deputy Colonial Secretary
1. 4.1948
Director of Medical and Sanitary Services Director of Medical Services
4. 2.1929
24. 7.1886
Assessor of Municipal Rates
2.12.1936
Director of Medical and Health Services
1. 5.1946
Assessor of Rates Assessor
12.10.1889
1. 1.1938
1843
1843
7. 5.1844
7. 5.1844 28. 7.1844
Surveyor General
Director of Public Works
Colonial Chaplain
Chief Justice
Registrar, Supreme Court
Attorney General
1891
1. 6.1887
1906
Commissioner of Rating and Valuation Superintendent of Imports and Exports
Director of Commerce and Industry
Chief Resident Engineer, Kowloon/Canton Railway
Manager, Kowloon Canton Railway
Manager and Chief Engineer
1. 4.1949
30.10.1911
1. 8.1927
31. 7.1947
1844
Auditor General
General Manager
1. 5.1946
Auditor
Director of Audit
22. 1.1890
Manager and Chief Engineer
15. 1.1960
16. 1.1948
General Manager
1. 7.1965
28. 2.1845
Captain Superintendent of Police
Inspector General of Police
23. 2.1929
Director of Air Services
1. 1.1930
Director of Civil Aviation