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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 6, 1914.

NOTICES.

No. 432.

Order under Section 91b of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, No. 1 of 1903, made by the Governor on the 23rd day of October, 1914.

WHEREAS I, Sir FRANCIS HENRY MAY, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same deem it expedient for a public purpose to order the removal of certain graves on Crown Land which are not in an authorised Cemetery namely:-all graves situated on that piece of ground, adjacent to Mount Caroline Cemetery, shortly to be known as Inland Lot No. 1947. NOW THEREFORE I by this Order under my hand by virtue of the power in that behalf vested in me by Section 91b of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance No. 1 of 1903 and all other powers 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 legal personal representatives or next of kin of the persons buried therein or 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 Department 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 23rd day of October, 1914.

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

Hongkong.

F. H. MAY,

Governor.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

No. 433. It is hereby notified that it is the intention of the Governor to make an Order directing the removal of all graves on the piece of land shortly to be registered as Inland Lot No. 1947 situate within the area coloured blue on a plan of the said Lot which may be seen during office hours at the Offices of the Public Works Department.

No. 434.--It is hereby notified that the Grant Code of 1910 has, with the approval of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, been withdrawn as from the 1st July, 1914, and a new Code, copies of which can be obtained on application to the Director of Education, substituted therefor.

No. 435. It is hereby notified for general information that due notice of the appoint- ment in 1903 of Pastor MULLER as the Director in Hongkong of the Berlin Ladies' Mission for China and proof thereof has been placed in the hands of the Governor.

CLAUD SEVERN,

6th November, 1914.

Colonial Secretary.