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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 23, 1917.

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No. 115.---It is hereby notified that by command of His Excellency the Governor and pursuant to the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, (Ordinance No. 1 of 1903), an election will take place at the City Hall on Tuesday, the 3rd day of April, 1917, commencing at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of enabling the electors to nominate a member to serve on the Sanitary Board in the place of PHILIP WALLACE GOLDRING, Esquire, an elected member of the said Board, who has resigned.

The following persons will be entitled to vote at the election, that is to say

Such persons as are included in either of the Jurors Lists referred to in sec- tion 7 (3) of the Jury Ordinance, 1887; and also the following persons exempted from serving as jurors, that is to say, unofficial members of the Executive or of the Legislative Council; barristers and solicitors on the roll of the Supreme Court; medical practitioners; dentists in actual practice in the Colony; persons registered under the Pharmacy Ordi- nance, 1908; clergymen of the Church of England, Roman Catholic priests, ministers of any congregation of Protestant dissenters or of Jews' functioning in the Colony; masters of any school, other than a verna- cular school, in the Colony; professors, lecturers and other academic officers of the University of Hongkong; editors, sub-editors and reporters of any daily newspaper published in the Colony; pilots licensed under the Pilots Ordinance, 1904; and persons of sound mind who have pre- viously been included in either of the said Jurors Lists but have been removed therefrom on account of age or infirmity.

The election will be conducted in accordance with the Rules contained in Schedule (to the above named Ordinance (Government Notification No. 1 of 4th January, 1909).

The name of every Candidate shall be nominated in writing by one Elector and seconded by another and the said Nominations delivered to the Registrar of the Supreme Court not less than four clear days before the day fixed for the election.

Every Nomination shall be personally handed to the Registrar by the Candidate or his Nominator or Seconder.

In the event of the election being contested voting will commence immediately after the nominations have been read and continue until 6 p.m., when the ballot-box will be closed.

21st March, 1917.

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HUGH A. NISBET,

Registrar.