# -F4
There were 38 Companies registered in 1909, as compared with 31 in 1908, the revenue from which was :
Registration Fees,- Filing and other Fees,
$5,917 as against $4,858 in 1908
- 1,939 $1,931 11 $7,856 $6,789The number of licences granted under section 4 of "The Companies (Local Registers) Ordinance 1907" (No. 16 of 1907) enabling Companies operating outside the Colony to keep local registers of members was 115.
The fees collected in respect of such licences amounted to $14,873.
The number of authorizations issued under section 5 of the same Ordinance to Companies to keep their registers of members at their head offices instead of at their registered offices in this Colony was 14.
The fees collected in respect of such authorizations amounted to $32.
## 10. FEES AND COMMISSIONS.
The total sums collected during the year by way of Fees and Commissions amounted to $45,861 as against $46,592 in the previous year.
## 11. STAFF.
Mr. Arathoon Seth, I.S.O., Registrar, retired on pension on 30th October and was succeeded by Mr. Joseph Horsford Kemp, Head of the Sanitary Department, who, previous to his appointment, acted as Registrar from 30th June to 29th October.
Mr. John Roskruge Wood, Deputy Registrar & Appraiser, was promoted to Second Police Magistrate on 30th June and Mr. Charles Alexander Dick Melbourne was appointed to succeed him.
Mr. James Dyer Ball, I.S.O., Chief Interpreter, retired on pension on 25th January and was succeeded by Mr. Nicholas George Nolan, First Interpreter, Magistracy.
Mr. Li Hong Mi, Second Interpreter, retired on pension on 1st February, and Mr. Wong Kwong Tin, Second Interpreter in the Registrar General's Office, succeeded him on the 9th June.
Mr. Mackie, Third Interpreter, was transferred to the Magistracy on the 15th June to be First Interpreter there, but returned to this Department on 6th October. In the meantime Mr. Ng Yuk Shu, a Clerk in the Police Office, performed the duties of Third Interpreter in this Department.
Mr. Wong Kwok U, Clerk and Translator, resigned on 30th October and Mr. Wong Kwong Tin, Second Interpreter, was appointed to do his work until the appointment of a successor, Mr. Mackie doing the work of the Second Interpreter and Mr. Ng Yuk Shu that of the Third Interpreter.
-F4
There were 38 Companies registered in 1909, as compared with 31 in 1908, the revenue from which was :---
Registration Fees,- Filing and other Fees,
-
$5.917 as against $4,858 in 1908
-
1,939
11
$1,931
$7,856
$6,789
The number of licences granted under section 4 of "The Com- panies (Local Registers) Ordinance 1907" (No. 16 of 1907) enabling Companies operating outside the Colony to keep local registers of
members was 115.
The fees collected in respect of such licences amounted to $14,873.
The number of authorizations issued under section 5 of the same Ordinance to Companies to keep their registers of members at their head offices instead of at their registered offices in this Colony was
14.
The fees collected in respect of such authorizations amounted to $32.
10. FEES AND COMMISSIONS.
The total sums collected during the year by way of Fees and Com- missions amounted to $45,861 as against $46,592 in the previous year.
11. STAFF.
Mr. Arathoon Seth, 1.5.0., Registrar, retired on pension on 30th October and was succeeded by Mr. Joseph Horsford Kemp, Head of the Sanitary Department, who, previous to his appointment, acted as Registrar from 30th June to 29th October.
Mr. John Roskruge Wood, Deputy Registrar & Appraiser, was promoted to Second Police Magistrate on 30th June and Mr. Charles Alexander Dick Melbourne was appointed to succeed him.
Mr. James Dyer Ball, 1.5.0., Chief Interpreter, retired on pension on 25th January and was succeeded by Mr. Nicholas George Nolan, First Interpreter, Magistracy.
Mr. Li Hong Mi, Second Interpreter, retired on pension on 1st February, and Mr. Wong Kwong Tin, Second Interpreter in the Regis- trar General's Office, succeeded him on the 9th June.
Mr. Mackie, Third Interpreter, was transferred to the Magistracy on the 15th June to be First Interpreter there, but returned to this Department on 6th October. In the meantime Mr. Ng Yuk Shu, a Clerk in the Police Office, performed the duties of Third Interpreter in this Department.
Mr. Wong Kwok U, Clerk and Translator, resigned on 30th October and Mr. Wong Kwong Tin, Second Interpreter, was appointed to do his work until the appointment of a successor, Mr. Mackie doing the work of the Second Interpreter and Mr. Ng Yuk Shu that of the Third Interpreter.
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