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Compulsory ORDINANCE STARTS DR. NORRIS
Service Tribunal Announced
ON WEDNESDAY.
With the assent' by His Ex«^ cellency the Governor to the Compulsory Service Ordinance, the measure has become law.
It was officially notified on Saturday that the Ordinance will come into operation on Wednesday.
FLYING
TO CHINA
GENERAL
NEON SIGNS OFF. IN TYPHOON- Government has issued a new order demanding · that electric current supplying nean be cut off once the No, 5 signal has been hoisted.
The Reverend Dr. John Franklyn The action is taken under the Norris, the American Baptist Advertisements Regulation'. Or 'minister with the biggest pastorate | dinance of 1921 and the amended in the world, left London on July Ordinance of 1937, and the “Gov- ernment Gazette" notice reads as follows:
"On the hoisting of the No. 5.or
It is notified in the "Govern-
A Medical Board of eight per-17 for Rome. ment Gazette" that His Excellency sons has been constituted under
From "there he will fly down the the Governor has been pleased the direction of the Director of to appoint the following to be Medical Bervices. Hon. Dr. P. 8. Empire line to the East. And his members of the Compulsory Ser-Belwyn-Clark. It consists of repre- goal is Chungking, war-time capital any typhoon signal above that
sentatives of the Navy, Army. Gov-of Generalissimo ernment and, in addition, com- shek. prises three private practitioners.
vice Tribunal:
His Honour Mr. Roger Ed- ward Lindsel, Paisan Judge (Chaleman);
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The Honourable Sir Henry Edward Pollock, KC.. LLD;
Commander William Patrick McCarthy, Royal Navy;
Major James Francis Benoy, Deputy Assistant Adjutant General China Command;
Mr. Harrie Vaughan - Wilkin- son, D.5.0.
Appeal Tribunal
The following have been 2p- pointed to be members of the Appeal Tribunal:-
His Honour Sir Alasdair Duncan Athol MäcGregor, K., K.C. Chief Justice (Chaft- man);
The Honourable Mr. Stanley Hudson Dodwell;
The Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General
charke
In
of Administration,
China Command. ·
· Clerk To Tribunal
The examinations will be carried out at the Garrison School in Garden Road, near the Lower Peak Tram Station...
84 Called Daily
Persons subject to examination will be called up ir batches of 84" dally.
They will be called up in alphabetical order-that is, those whose surnames commenced with the letter "A" will first be called
up.
Chiang Kai-umber, electric current supplying the transformers of neon signs at- tached to the outside of any build-
After interviewing the General- | ing must be cut off, and such cur- issimo, he is going on to Tokyo and rent must remain cut off so long. from there, home, where he in-as any of the said signals remain tenda to present
report bolsted."
Од his journey to his friend. Secretary of State Mr. Cordell Hull. For Dr. Norris is a keen student of politics who holds vigorous views on international affairs.
A definition of a neon sign is added which says: "Neon Sign means any arrangement of glass tubing charged with "neon," argon, helium or other
gives a bright glow,
gas → which. when The Naz! authorities recently ed to electrical cancelled his visa to Germany. Dr. Norris replied by burning the Nazi dag before a crowd of 40,000 people in Detroit
man ot
inserted
subject-
pressure whether
in the form of letters, characters, model, device, border or outline.. designed to attract, public atten- tion to any building or place on or la which it may be affixed."
AFFAIRS
He Fought Graft Calling up will be by means of a prescribed form, which must be Dr. Norris is 61, B taken by the person affected to powerful physique, with craggy the examination hall.
features and a picturesquely ›› All persons passed by "the violent vocabulary. He is known COLONIAL EMPIRE medical examination board will variously in his home town of Fort Worth as "The Fighting Parson" and the "Texas Cyclone."
His career has
been BS spectacular as his personality. He has campaigned vigorously against
next be ordered to attend before the Compulsory Service Tribunal.
substituting the figures "45" for
Mr. Claude Bramall Burgess, the figures "40" in the forth line Colonial Administrate Service, has thereof.. heen appointed to be Clerk to the 'compulsory Service Tribunal.
AMENDMENTS TO
ORDINANCES '`·
་་
Council
Waterworks Ordinance
The Governor makes the following amendment to Appendix 1 of the Schedule to the
Waterworks Ordinance. 1938.
The proviso at the foot of the The "Government"- Gazette first paragraph of Appendix 1, publishes the following amend-Price of Water, is rescinded and ments to the rates published in the following proviso is substituted Notification No. 235 in the Govern therefor: ment Gazette of 31st March. 1939
Provided that if any account remains unpaid after the date by
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New Parliamentary Committee
administrations, has been indicted expected that the Prime Minister a number of corrupt city LONDON, July 29 (BWS) It is
for arson, perjury. and murder, will announce in the Commons and been acquitted on all three next week the Government de- charges.
cision to agree to the setting up Parliamentary committee of a which will keep continuously un- der review questions affecting the Colonial Empire.
To-day he is still hard at work in his pastorate of 7000 souls. His two principal churches are 1300 miles apart. But this does not deter the Doctor. He uses ап airplane to carry him from one service to another.
1: Regulation 2 (1) (a) la amend- which payment of such account 19 The total amount applied for ed by substituting the figures to be made, the sum payable in tenders for £40,000,000 Treasury be increased by twenty- Bills was £73,775,000. The amount
"55" before the word "cents"
shall
Opinion is growing that occa- stonal debates in the Commons on Colonial Office estimates and ques-- tions to the Secretary of State do not give adequate expression to Parliament's sense of responsibility for the Colonial Empire,
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It is thought that a colonial af- fairs committee would be able to
2. Regulation 2 (1) (b) is amend-five cents if it is not more allotted in Bills at three months perform a useful service in study- ed by substituting the figures "70" than five dollars, and by ten cents was £36,000,000. The average ing and reporting to the House on for the figures "65" before the for every twa dollars or part rate per cent. Was 14/4.08 pence various aspects of colonial ad- thereof if it is more than five against 14/8.61 pence last week.-ministration and social and econo-
(BWS)
word "cents".
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3. Regulation 3 is amended by dollars.
mic conditions of the Colonies.
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