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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 27, 1927.

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NOTICES.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

No. 319. The following persons, that is to say,—

BISHAN SINGH

A. C. BOTELHO

D. A. GOODWIN

F. C. MAU FUNG

A. F. B. SILVA-NETTO

SIRDAR KHAN

G. G. N. TINSON

S. W. Tso

having offered their services, and it appearing that other persons are desirous of joining as members of a police reserve force, His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the services of the persons above named, and they are hereby formed into the Hong Kong Police Reserve under the Hong Kong Police Reserve Ordinance, 1914.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to direct that the Hong Kong Police Reserve formed as above shall be open to other persons desiring to join as members.

No. 320.-The following Extract from the Victoria Government Gazette, No. 43, dated 23rd March, 1927, is published for general information.

HONG KONG DECLARED A RECIPROCATING STATE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE JUDGMENTS (RECIPROCITY) ACTS.

PROCLAMATION

By His Excellency the Governor of the State; of Victoria and its Dependencies

in the Commonwealth of Australia, &c., &c., &c.

The Governor of the State of Victoria, in the Commonwealth of Australia, being

I, satisfied that reciprocal provisions have been made by the Legislature of Hong

Kong (the same being a part of IIis Majesty's Dominions outside the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Australia) for the enforcement within such part of judgments as defined by section 2 of the Supreme Court Act 1923, so far as the same relate to Victorian judgments, orders, and awards, do now, under the powers conferred by section 3 of the Judgments (Reciprocity) Act 1925, by and with the advice of the Executive Council, declare Hong Kong to be a reciprocating State for the purpose of the Judgments (Reciprocity) Acts, and that the said Acts shall extend and apply to all parts of Hong Kong.

Given under my Iland and the Seal of the State of Victoria aforesaid, at Melbourne, this fifteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, and in the seventeenth year of the reign of His Majesty King George V.

By Ilis Excellency's Command,

FRED. W. EGGLESTON,

Attorney General.

GOD SAVE THE KING.

[L.S.]

SOMERS.