HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
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5TH OCTOBER, 1916.
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PRESENT:-
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, Sir FRANCIS HENRY MAY, K.C.M.G.
HIS EXCELLENCY MAJOR-GENERAL F. VENTRIS (General Officer Commanding Troops in China).
HON. MR. CLAUD SEVERN (Colonial Secretary).
HON. MR. J. H. KEMP
KEMP (Attorney General).
HON. MR. E. D. C. WOLFE (Colonial Treasurer).
HON. MR. E. R. HALLIFAX (Secre- tary for Chinese Affairs).
HON. MR. W. CHATHAM, C. M. G. (Director of Public Works).
HON. MR. C. McL. MESSER (Captain Superintendent of Police).
HON. MR. WEI YÜK, C. M.G.
HON. MR. H. E. POLLOCK, K.C.
HON. MR. E. SHELLIM. HON. MR. D. LANDALE.
HON. MR. P. H. HOLYOAK.
MR. A. G. M. FLETCHER (Clerk of Councils)..
Honour for Ng Fuk Shan
HIS EXCELLENCY, before proceed ing with the agenda, addressed Mr. Ng Fuk Shan, formerly chief accountant in the Police Department, as follows:
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clerk and accountant of that department. Those nine years are a short period of your total services to this Colony. You joined the service in 1874 as clerk at the Magistracy and you
afterwards and before you retired you completed transferred to the Police Department,
no less than 41 years' service. I know that I voice the wishes of the whole Civil Service when I say that they and I most sincerely pray that you will long be spared to enjoy the distinction which you have received.
The Clerk of the Council then read the Warrant, and the badge of the Order was ¦ presented to Mr. Ng Fuk Shan, who
thanked His Excellency and retired.
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Minutes
The minutes of the last meeting were confirmed.
Papers
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of His Excellency the Governor, laid upon the table
the following papers: Correspondence relating to the petition for greater representa- tion of the public on the Execu- tive and Legislative Council; report of the Director of Public Works for the year 1915; corespondence relating to the Kowloon Bay reclamation scheme; quart- erly return of excesses on sub-heads met by savings under heads of expenditure.
Finance
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H.E.
of H.E. the Governor, laid upon the table report of meeting of the
Finance Committee held on August 3rd (No. 6), and moved that it be adopted.
I have the honour to inform you that His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to approve of your appointment to be a Companion of the Imperial Service Order, and I have now very much pleasure in handing you the badge of the Order and I will presently ask the Clerk of the Council to read His Majesty's Warrant. It affords me peculiar pleasure to perform this duty, because I am not unmindful of the many valuable services. THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by which you rendered to me personally command of H. E. the Governor, laid during the nine years I had charge of upon the table Financial Minutes Nos. the Police Department, where you
20 to 29, and moved that they be referred acted first as clerk and then as chief to the Finance Committee.
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THE COLONIAL TREASURER, onded, and this was agreed to.
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