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Enclosure 4.
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in the event of necessity under the Volunteer Ordinance as a member of a Hongkong Volunteer Reserve Company. No drill is insisted on but members are expected to make themselves efficient rifle shots, for which purpose Military Rifles will be lent to them by arrangement with the General Officer Commanding, and ammunition sold to them at a reduced price.
I attach a copy of a Notification which was issued when the formation of this Association was first proposed, a report of an address I delivered on the subject on the 23rd September, and a copy of the minutes of a Meeting which was held on the 29th ultimo, at which the Chairman and Committee of the Association were elected and a beginning made in bringing the Association into active life.
6.
To meet the requirements of the General Officer Commanding in the matter of working the Military Telephones in war, without imposing this duty, which requires no regular Military training, on members of the Volunteer Corps by whom it would probably be considered irksome, Volunteers for this special work were called for from among the British subordinates in the various Departments of the Civil Government which could best spare some of their numbers in a time of emergency. Fifty-six men from the Public Works, Prisons, and Sanitary Departments have answered to this call and have had their names registered, and arrangements are now being made for allotting them to their stations on mobilization.
I have elsewhere reported the registration of 12 private practitioners for service in the Military and Naval Hospitals in time of war.
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With a view to obtaining some assistance to