OML
COALG 3
"E"
449334
THREE DOLLARS
IN THE MATTER of The British
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Nationality and Status of Aliens
Act 1914.
and
IN THE MATTER of an Application
by Walter Guthrie Erwin for a
Certificate of Naturalization as
a Subject of the British Empire.
I, ARTHUR WILLIAM HILL, of No.1 Goverment quarter,
Wong Nei Chong Road, Victoria in the Colony of Hong Kong,
Head Bailiff, do solemnly and sincerely declare and say as
follows :-
1. I am a Householder in Victoria aforesaid and am a
natural born British Subject and am able to and do testify
to the facts hereinafter set forth from my own personal
knowledge thereof.
2. I personally know anu am well acquainted with Walter
Guunrie Erwin who resides when not absent from Hong Kong in
the course of his occupation as Ships' officer at No.30 praya
East Victoria aforesaid, My knowledge of and acquaintance
with the said Walter Guthrie Erwin extenus over a period of
at least six years.
3. There is now promced and shown to me the document
constituting the memorial (respecting his Application for a
Certificate of Naturalization as a Subject of the Briti su
Empire) of the said Walter Gutarie Erwin bearing date the
22nd
day of December 1922 and marked with the
letter "A". From my knowledge and acquaintance with the
said Walter Gutarie Erwin I am able to and do say that to
the best of my knowle uge information and belief the state-
ments contained in sual memorial are true, except wuring
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