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communicate on questions of training direct with the C.R.A.,

C.R.E., and General Officer Commanding, respectively. If the

senior officer of the new volunteer corps were styled Command-

ing Officer such communications would have to pass through him,

which might cause unnecessary delay, and which would occasion

unnecessary work. It will be seen from the regulations in the

First Schedule that the Administrative Commandant may be either

a volunteer officer or a regular officer, and that if he is a

volunteer officer the Adjutant must be a regular officer.

9.

In section 12(1) a reference has been inserted to the case

of serious local disturbance, in order to emphasise one reason

for the formation of a volunteer force.

10.

A reference has been inserted in ection 19 to the Crown

Suita Ordinance, 1910, in order to avoid difficulties of legal

procedure.

11.

The

Section 28 of the Ordinance provides for the repeal of the Volunteer Ordinance, 1893, and the Volunteer Reserve Ordi-

nance, 1910. The repeal of these Ordinances is not to take

effect until a date to be proclaimed by the Governor. object of this is to keep alive an organisation which will take care of the property of the two existing volunteer bodies and which can be used for the purpose of receiving applications for admission to the new volunteer corps, and of making such arrangements as may be necessary before the new corps can be properly constituted. The section also provides that upon the coming into effect of the repeal of the two existing Ordinances all property, rights, and powers vested in the Commanding Of- ficer of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps and in the President of