188596-1932-Order-for-removal-of-all-graves-in-those-portions-of-Sections-A-and-B-in-Kai-Lung-Wan-East-Cemetery — Page 1

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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 12, 1932.

thereto me enabling DO HEREBY ORDER AND DIRECT that the said graves be removed to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works either by the Public Works Depart- ment or by the Tung Wah Hospital should the Board of Direction desire to undertake the work and that the remains removed from such graves shall be re-interred or disposed of in such manner as the Secretary for Chinese Affairs in con- sultation with the Head of the Sanitary Department and the Board of Direction of the Tung Wah Hospital shall think fit and that all reasonable expenses in connection with such re- moval, re-interment and disposal shall be defrayed out of the public revenue of the Colony.

Given under my hand this 5th day of August, 1932.

W. T. SOUTHORN. Officer Administering the Government.

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

591

No. 525.

HONG KONG.

Order under section 92 (8) of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, Ordinance No. 1 of 1903, made by the Officer Administering the Government on the 5th day of August, 1932.

WHEREAS 1, WILFRID THOMAS SOUTHORN, Com- panion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Officer Administering the Government of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same, deem it expedient for the execution of a public purpose to remove all graves in that portion of Section A in Kai Lung Wan East Cemetery in which bodies were buried during the year 1925, that portion of Section B in which bodies were buried during the years 1922, 1923 and 1924, and Trenches in which bodies were buried during the years 1928, 1924 and 1925, NOW, I, by this Order under my hand, by virtue of the power in that behalf vested in me by section 92 (S) of the Public Tealth and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, and all other powers thereto me enabling DO HEREBY ORDER AND DIRECT that the said graves be removed to the satis- faction of the Director of Public Works either by the Public Works Department or by the Tung Wah Hospital should the Board of Direction desire to undertake the work and that the remains removed from such graves shall be re-interred or disposed of in such manner as the Secretary for Chinese Affairs in consultation with the Head of the Sanitary Depart- ment and the Board of Direction of the Tung Wah Hospital shall think fit and that all reasonable expenses in connection with such removal, re-interment and disposal shall be defrayed out of the public revenue of the Colony.

Given under my hand this 5th day of August, 1982.

W. T. SOUTHORN.

Officer Administering the Government.

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG.

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