Enclosure 5.
HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
31
15TH OCTOBER, 1926.
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PRESENT:-
Kong date from long before that. became a Justice of the Peace at the
He
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR (SIR early age of 26, and a year later he was CECIL CLEMENTI, K.C.M.G.).
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GENERAL OFFICER
COMMANDING THE TROOPS (MAJOR-GENERAL C. C. LUARD, C.B., C.M.G.).
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY (Hon. MR. W. T. SOUTHORN).
The Attorney-General (Hon. Mr. J. H.
KEMP, K.C., C.B.E.).
THE COLONIAL TREASURER (HON. MR. C. McI. MESSER, 0.B.E.).
HON. MR. E. R. HALLIFAX, C.M.G., C.B.E. (Secretary for Chinese Affairs).
one of the founders of the District Watch Committee, on which he served for more than 20 years. ber of the Advisory Committee of the He was an original mem-
Tung Wa Hospital, a member of the per- manent Committee of the Po Leung Kuk, an original member of the Permanent Committee for Chinese Cemeteries and a life member of the Court of the Hong Kong University, to which he made gener- ous benefactions. For a quarter of a century he was compradore of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Company and he in connection with the late Mr. Lau Chü-pak, also a member of this Council,
HON. MR. H. T. CREASY (Director of founded the Chinese General Chamber of Public Works).
Commerce and the Confucian Society. We can ill afford the loss of so public-
HON. MR. E. D. C. WOLFE (Captain spirited, so capable and so loyal a col- Superintendent of Police).
HON. SIR SHOU-SON CHOW.
HON. MR. A. O. LANG.
HON. MR. H. W. BIRD.
HON. MR. R. H. KOTEWALL, LL.D.
HON. MR. D. G. M. BERNARD.
HON. DR. W. V. M. KOCH.
league, and I move that there be entered in our minutes a record of our high ap- preciation of services rendered to this Colony by the late Mr. Ho Fook, of our sense of the loss which Hong Kong has sustained by his death, and of our sym- pathy with his family in their bereave- ment.
HON. MR. A. O. LANG-On behalf of the Unofficial members of this Council I
MR. S. B. B. McELDERRY (Clerk of desire to associate myself with the re- Councils).
Late Mr. Ho Fook
H.E. THE GOVERNOR-Before the Council takes up the order of the day it is fitting that we should commemorate the services to Hong Kong of our late col- league, Mr. Ho Fook, through whose recent death the Colony has lost one of its most prominent citizens. Mr. Ho Fook was a member of this Council from 1917 to 1921: but his services to Hong
marks of Your Excellency. The late Mr. Ho Fook's services to this Colony ex- tended over a period of 30 years--a record which it would be hard to beat. The greater part of his work naturally lay with the Chinese administration but his European colleagues and the European community generally appreciated his good advice and admired the
the inexhaustible energy of his labours on behalf of the welfare of the Colony. As you have said, Sir, we can ill afford to lose a man of his character.