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No. 9.

Vol. LXXXII.

DIEU

MON

OIT.

The Hong Kong Government Gazette Extraordinary

Published by Authority

MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1936.

The following Notification is published.

By command,

W. T. SOUTHORN,

Colonial Secretary.

NOTICE.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

No. 103. The following arrangements are notified for Tuesday, January 28th, 1936, in connection with the obsequies of His late Majesty King George V :-

Public offices will be closed until 2 p.m.

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11.30 a.m.—A special Service will be held in St. John's Cathedral, at which

Uniform will be worn.

1 p.m.-A general Silence of two minutes will be observed, the beginning and ending of which will be marked by the firing of a gun from H.M.S. Kent. At the conclusion of the silence the Governor will lay a wreath on behalf of the people of the Colony at the base of His late Majesty's Statue in Statue Square. This will be done without ceremony of any kind, but the Police will keep the Square free from traffic for the conve- nience of any who may wish to observe the Silence there.

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