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WHO'S WHO IN THE FAR EAST (JUNE) 1906-7.

Serendahı, 1903; acting assistant District Treasurer, Kuala Lumpur, 1904; acting District Treasurer, Ranb, Pahang, 1906. Address: Raub, Palang, Federated Malay

States.

LANNING, George (SHANGHAI),

Principal, Shanghai Public School;

b. June 16, 1852; int. 1875, to

Caroline, d. of Theo. Mallor, of Middlewich. Educ.: Weymouth House School, Bath, and St. John's College, Battersea. London. Began training as teacher nuder his

father, also a teacher; was head of the All England Scholarship Exam. list, 1870; graduated in 1872

with 1st class Certificate; Head Master, Middlewich Schools, 1872-

75; of the Anglo-Chinese School,

Shanghai, 1875-89; and the Shang- hai Public School, 1889 to present time. Publications: "Easy Steps

to Chinese Studies," and various anonymous books and pamphlets. Club: Masonic. Address: Public

School, Shanghai, China.

Civil

LANSDELL, Alfred (NEGRI SEMBILAN),

Federated Malay States

Service; b. June 29,1865. Assistant

Surveyor, Land Office at Kinta and Matang, 1889-1891; acting Revenue Surveyor, 1895; Superintendent of Surveys, Negri Sembilan, 1897-1901. Address: Negri Sembilan, Fede-

rated Malay States.

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LAU CHU-PAK (HONGKONG), J.P.; Compradore, A. S. Watson and

Co.; b. June 5, 1837; in. 1896.

Educ.: Government Central School,

Hongkong. First clerk to Hong-

kong Observatory, 1885; con-

pradore to West Point Godown Co., 1888; Senior Anglo-Chinese

master of Formosa Government

College, 1889; tea merchant, 1830;

first Chinese assistant and com-

pradore of A. S. Watson and Co. since 1893; member of directorate of Tung Wa Hospital; member of committee of Society for Protection

of Women and Children; member

of the Sanitary Board; member of

District Watchman Committee; hon. secretary of Ellis Kadoorie Chinese Schools Society; member of executive committee of Tung

Wa District Hospitals since 1897; took a leading part in the establish- ment of the Plague Hospital for Chinese, the Ellis Kadoorie Chin-

ese Schools Society in Hongkong

and China, the Blake Cominemora-

tion Fund, the Chinese Commercial

Union, etc., etc. Club: Hongkong (Chinese). Address: No. 1, “Ard- more," Babington Path, Hongkong.

LAURANS, Louis Joseph Charle

192

Felix (SAIGON), Conseiller, Cour d'Appel; b. Nov. 9, 185). Entree l'Administration de la Justice,

Août 15, 1877; Conseiller, Juillet 1, 1934. Address: Saigon, Cochin-

China.

LAW, Archibald Fitzgerald (PENANG),

M.A.; Puisne Judge; b. 1853. Educ. : Oriel College, Oxford.

Called to Bar, Inner Temple, 1879;

Assistant Commissioner, Cyprus, 1830; President of District Court, Famagusta, 1883; Principal Forest Officer, 1886'; member of Legislative Council, 1887; acting Queen's Ad- vocate, 1889-1890; acting Chief Sec- retary to Government 1890-91;