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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 22, 1930. 431

APPOINTMENTS,

&c.

No. 520.-His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the following promotions in the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps to date from 18th August, 1930:-

Company Sergeant-Major JoHN HENRY LAWRENCE to be Second Lieutenant. Company Quartermaster Sergeant José VICTOR VIEIRA DOS REMEDIOS to be

Second Lieutenant.

Sergeant HENRY JOSEPH SILVA to be Second Lieutenant.

22nd August, 1930.

No. 521.-His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Mr. JOHN HEYWOOD GELLING to act as Secretary to the Sanitary Board, with effect from the 21st August, 1930, until further notice.

22nd August, 1930.

NOTICES.

No. 522.

Order under section 92 (8) of the Public Health and Buillings Ordinance, 1503, Ordinance No. 1 of 1903, made by the Governor on the 20th day of August, 1930.

WHEREAS I, Sir WILLIAM PEEL, Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same, deem it expedient for the execution of a public purpose to remove all graves in those portions of Section A and Trenches in Ho Mun Tin Cemetery in which bodies were buried during the years 1922 and 1923, NOW, I by this Order under my hand by virtue of the power in that behalf vested in me by section 92 (8) of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 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 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 con- sultation 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 20th day of August, 1930.

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG.

W. PEEL.

Governor.