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THREE DOLLARS
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IN THE MATTER of The Britisn
228
Nationality and Status of Aliens
Act 1914.
and
IN THE LATTER of an Application
by Walter Guthrie Erwin for a
Certificate of Naturalization as
a Subject of the British Empire.
I, HENRY PERCY WHILE, of 53 Robinson Road
Victoria in the colony of Hong Kong, a member of the Firm of Douglas Lapraik and company do solemily and sincerely
declare anu say as follows :-
1.
I am a Housenolder in Victoria aforesaid and am a
natural born Britisı Subject and am able to and do testify
to the facts hereinafter set forth from my own personal
knowledge thereof.
2. I personally know and am well acquainted with Walter
Guthrie Erwin who resides when not absent from Hong Kong in
the course of nis occupation as Ships' Officer at No.30 Praya
East Victoria aforesaid, My knowledge of and acquaintance
with the said Walter Guthrie Erwin extends over a period of
at least Six years.
3.
There is now prounced and shown to me the document
constituting the Memorial (respecting nis Application for a
Certificate of Naturalization as a Subject of the British
Empire) of the saiu Walter Gutarie Erwin bearing date the
22 and
day of December 1922 and marked with the letter
"A". From my knowledge and acquaintance with the said Walter
Guthrie Erwin I am able to and do say that to the best of my
knowledge information and belief the statements contained in
suon Memorial are true.
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