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Secretory Secretary of State.
DRAFT. Julmission
1; the King
with Vacancy form.
Lord Passfield with his
humble duty to The King, begs to
submit for Your Majesty's approval
the appointment of Sir Joseph
Horsford Kemp, Kt. Bach., C.E.E., K. C.
as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
of Hong Kong in succession to Sir
Henry Cowper Gollan, Kt.,Each., C.E. E.
who will retire from thatoost in
August next.
Sir Joseph Kemp entered the
service of the Hong Kong Government
in 1898 as a Cadet and after serving
in 1910-
in various capacities was appointed
Attorney General of the Colony
still
post he holds.
It is considered that his knowledge
of the laws of Hong Kong, his
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