CO129-547-2 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 25-1-1934 - 28-12-1934 — Page 49

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W.1. SOUTHERN

Officer Administering the Government.

BY VIRTUE OF POWERS vested in me, I, SIR

WILFRID THOMAS SOUTHORN, Knight Commander of the

Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Companion

of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and

Saint George, Officer Administering the Government

and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong

and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same,

do by these presents appoint you WILLIAM HENRY BELL

ESQUIRE provisionally, and subject to His Majesty's

pleasure, to be temporarily an Unofficial Member of

the Legislative Council in the place of the Honourable

Mr. J.J. Paterson, who is temporarily absent from the

Colony.

GIVEN under my hand and the Public Seal of

the Colony, at Government House, Victoria, Hong Kong,

this 12th day of April, 1934.

By Command,

D. W. TRA

J

Colonial Secretary.