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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 5, 1934.

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No. 746.-His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Mr. ARTHUR JACKSON to act as Government Analyst during the absence on leave of Mr. VICTOR CECIL BRANSON, with effect from 6th October, 1934.

5th October, 1934.

No. 747.

NOTICES.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT:

The following Order of His Majesty in Council which appeared in the London Gazette of the 17th of August, 1934, is published for information.

5th October, 1934.

W. T. SOUTHORN,

Colonial Secretary.

AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,

THE 14TH DAY of August, 1934.

PRESENT,

THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by subsection (1) of Section 238 of the Mer- chant Shipping Act, 1894, (57 & 58 V. c. 60) (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act) it is provided that where it appears to His Majesty that due facilities are or will be given by the Government of any foreign country for recovering and apprehending seamen who desert from British merchant ships in that country, His Majesty may, by Order in Council stating that such facilities are or will be given, declare that that Section shall apply in the case of such foreign country, subject to any limitations, conditions and qualifications contained in the Order:

And whereas by certain Orders in Council made under Section 1 of the Foreign Deserters Act, 1852, (15 & 16 V. c. 26) the dates whereof are specified in the first column of Part I of the First Schedule hereto provisions were made as more particularly appear in the said Orders for the apprehen- sion of seamen who desert from merchant ships belonging to the foreign countries set out in the second column of Part I of the said First Schedule or to subjects of the Rulers of or to citizens of such foreign countries :

And whereas by virtue of the provisions of Section 745 of the principal Act the said Orders in Council are still in force as if they had been made under that Act:

And whereas by an Order in Council made on the 26th September, 1901, it was ordered and declared that Section 238 of the principal Act should apply in the case of the Republic of Honduras: