HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
31ST JULY, 1924.
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PRESENT:~
EXCELLENCY THE HIS
GOVERNOR, SIR REGINALD EDWARD STUBBS, K.C.M.G. COLONEL RUSSEL BROWN (The The Officer Temporarily Commanding Troops).
HON. SIR CLAUD SEVERN, K.B.E., C.M.G. (Colonial Secretary).
HON. MR. J. H. KEMP, K.C., (Attorney-General).
HON. MR. D. W. TRATMAN (Colonial Teasurer).
HON. MR. H. T. CREASY (Director of Public Works).
HON. MR. A. E. WOOD (Secretary for Chinese Affairs).
late Mr. Lowe was well known to all of you as a man of great public spirit and a devoted and interesting critic on any matters coming before the Council which fell more especially in his own domain- finance. That we have lost the assistance of Mr. Lowe is a subject of great regret to me and I feel that, owing to his death the community has lost a valuable mem- ber of society and this Council has been deprived of a man who was always ready to place his energies at the disposal of the Government. I would propose that the Clerk of Councils be instructed to convey
to Mrs. Lowe and to Mr. Lowe's family an expression of our sympathy in the loss that they have sustained,
HON. MR. P. H. HOLYOAK-The
HON. MR. E. D. C. WOLFE (Captain unofficial members of the Council wish, Superintendent of Police).
HON. MR. P. H. HOLYOAK.
HON. MR. H. W. BIRD.
HON. MR. R. H. KOTEWALL.
HON. MR. CHAU SIU-KI.
HON. MR. C. M. EDE.
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HON. MR. C. G. ALABASTER, K.C., O.B.E. MR. S. B. B. McELDERRY (Clerk of Councils).
New Members
Hon. Mr. H. W. BIRD and the Hon. Mr. C. G. ALABASTER, K.C., O.B.E., took the oath and their seats as members of the Council.
Tribute to the Late Mr. A. R. Lowe
H.E. THE GOVERNOR-Before proceed- ing to business I should mention that since the last meeting of this Council, the Council and the community have suffered another severe loss-among several during the last two years-in the death of the late Hon. Mr. Arthur Rylands Lowe, who has on several occa- sions placed his services at the disposal of the community and the Council. The
Sir, to entirely associate ourselves with the remarks which have been made by Your Excellency. We feel that the community has lost a public-spirited man that we can ill afford to lose.
HON. MR. R. H. KOTEWALL-Sir, my Chinese colleague and myself, beg respectfully to associate ourselves with the sentiments which have been expressed by Your Excellency and the hon. member representing the General Chamber of Commerce.
Members endorsed the motion by stand- ing in their places.
Minutes
The minutes of the last meeting of the Council were confirmed and signed.
Finance
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by com- mand of H.E. The Governor, laid upon the table Finance Minutes Nos. 47 to 63, and moved that they be referred to the Finance Committee.
THE COLONIAL TREASURER seconded, and the motion was agreed to.