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94 THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 28, 1930.

APPOINTMENTS,

&c.

No. 119.-His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to appoint Mr. CYRIL CHAMPKIN to be Lieutenant in the Reserve of Officers, Ilong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, with effect from the 18th February, 1930,

28th February, 1930.

No. 120. His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to appoint the Rev. Fr. DANIEL MACDONALD, B.Sc., to be a Member of the Board of Education during the absence from the Colony of the Rev. Fr. GEORGE BYRNE, D. Ph., or until further notice, with effect from the 22nd February, 1930.

28th February, 1930.

No. 121.-His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to make the following appointment under the provisions of the Hong Kong Volunteer Regulations, 1920;-

Captain RICHARD CLIVE STRACHEY, M.C., 1st Battalion, The Somerset Light Infantry, to act as Adjutant, with effect from 27th February, 1930.

28th February, 1930.

NOTICES.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT

No. 122. The following rules are published for general information.

28th February, 1930.

HONG KONG

E. R. HALLIFAX,

Colonial Secretary

RULES GOVERNING THE AWARD OF CERTIFICATES OF HONOUR.

1. A certificate of Honour shall consist of a scroll, bearing the portrait of His Majesty the King and the signature and seal of His Excellency the Governor and Com- mander-in-Chief or of the Officer Administering the Government.

2. Recipients of a Certificate of Honour shall be entitled to wear around the neck, pendent from a ribbon coloured red, white and blue forty inches in length and one and a half inches wide, a silver gilt Badge, bearing on the obverse the approved portrait of His Majesty the King, and on the reverse the badge of the Colony accompanied by the inscription in English characters "Hong Kong

3. The Badge of the Certificate of Honour may be worn on ceremonial occasions and on occasions when Orders, Decorations and Medals are worn.

4. Certificates of Honour shall only be awarded to persons who have resided in Colony of Hong Kong for a period of at least fifteen years; provided that in cases of extraordinary merit the Certificate may be awarded to persons who have so resided fo a less period than fifteen years. The total number of holders of the Certificates o Honour shall not exceed 10 at any one time.