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Colony and from overseas, it seems obvious that those who
are entitled under Ordinance No.1 of 1870 to become members
must be too numerous for a register of them to be kept, and
in point of fact there have never been any "members"
within the meaning of the incorporation Ordinance.
4. The mode of electing directors has in practice never
conformed to the provision above quoted in the incorporation
Ordinance. The procedure, which has grown to be more or
less a definite tradition, has been for certain guilds and
other bodies to nominate directors to serve. This procedure
or tradition has worked out extremely well in practice, any
difficulty experienced having been due not to any guild or
body claiming the right to send representatives, but,
the contrary, to the unwillingness of some guilds to nominate
representatives.
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5. The chief object of this Ordinance is to put that
practice or tradition on a more regular footing.
6. The Hospital in Kowloon known as the Kwong Wah is
governed by Ordinance No. 38 of 1911. Under that Ordinance
the Tung Wah Hospital possesses, in relation to the Kwong
Wah, the same powers and rights and is subject to the same
liabilities and responsibilities as it possesses, and is
subject to, with regard to the Tung Wah Hospital (section 3).
The Board of Directors have the power to appoint a manager
subject to the approval of the Governor (section 4), and the
Board of Directors have the power, subject to the approval
of the Governor in Council, to appoint a local committee
consisting of subscribers to the Kwong Wah Hospital who are
residents in Kowloon, of which the manager above mentioned
should be ex officio chairman (section 6).
7. Whether the Kwong Wah was ever managed in accordance
with the provisions of Ordinance No.38 of 1911, seems
doubtful. It is clear that as Kowloon grew and men were
forthcoming to manage the Kwong Wah as a Chinese Hospital
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