CO129-525-11 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 19-3-1930 - 19-9-1930 — Page 42

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HONG KONG

19th March, 1930.

My Lord,

With reference to Mr. Amery's despatch No.165

of 13th June, 1927, I have the honour to inform Your

Lordship that Mr. A. C. Hynes resigned his seat as an

Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong

as from the 14th instant on his departure from the Colony

on retirement, and I have accepted his resignation.

2.

I have provisionally appointed Mr. Benjamin

David Fleming Beith with effect from the 15th instant to

be temporarily an Unofficial Member of the Legislative

Council in the place of Mr. A. C. Hynes, and I submit this

appointment for confirmation.

3.

I further submit for Your Lordship's approval

that Mr. B. D. F. Beith be granted the definitive

appointment to the vacancy on the Legislative Council

created by the retirement of Mr. Hynes. Mr. Beith is the

Managing Director of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Company,

Limited, Hong Kong, and is one of the leading members of

the mercantile community of this Colony. He was a member

of the Legislative Council during the absence from the

Colony of Mr. J. Owen Hughes in 1929 and a member of the

Executive

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LORD PASSFIELD,

&C.,

&C.,

&c.