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The Right Honourable George Hall,

Privy Councillor, Member of Parliament,

Secretary of State for the Colonies.

The Humble Petition of

Shum Wai Yau, of No.13, Wun

Sha Street, Victoria in the

Colony of Hong Kong,

Journalist.

Respectfully Sheweth as follows :

1. Your Petitioner is a journalist by profession and

years of age. R.

2. Though Your Petitioner has so far not applied for a

British passport, Your Petitioner respectfully asserts that

he is of British nationality by birth and was born in Hong

Kong on the 6th day of July, 1897.

3.

Your Petitioner possesses no Birth Certificate by reason

of neglect on the part of his parents to register his birth but

he is able to furnish satisfactory proof of such Hong Kong

birth, Your Petitioner's father, before him, having been

resident in Hong Kong for 19 years up to his death in 1903.

Your Petitioner has remained and resided in Hong Kong all

4.

his life.

5.

Your Petitioner obtained his English schooling and

education at the Ellis Kadoorie School in Hong Kong and in

the year 1915 entered the employment of the English daily of

Hong Kong, namely, the South China Morning Post, serving in

various capacities until January 1932.

6. In the year 1925, Your Petitioner promoted a Chinese

daily newspaper circulating in Hong Kong called the Wah Kiu

Yat Po (English equivalent: "the Overseas Chinese Daily News";

1.

Ind.

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