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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 5, 1940.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

No. 1.

Hong Kong.

ORDINANCE No. 8 of 1921. (STAMP).

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 4 (1) (a) of the Stamp Ordinance, 1921, the Governor in Council amends Heading No. 10 in the Schedule to the said Ordinance by adding a new sub-paragraph (5A) to Heading No. 10, as follows-

(5A) National

The

issue.

Person

issuing.

Economy Savings 10 cents. Adhesive. Before Certificates, whether trans- ferable or not, issued in the Colony by the legal repre- sentatives of the Chinese Postal Remittances and Sav- ing Banks being instruments within the definition of Bill of Exchange.

Exemption.

Certificates issued before the

31st December, 1939.

5th January, 1940.

T. MEGARRY,

Clerk of Councils.

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APPOINTMENTS, &c.

No. 2. His Excellency the Governor has been pleased, under instructions from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, to appoint Miss JOAN MARY ORAM to be a Mistress (Kindergarten), Education Department, with effect from 22nd December, 1939.

30th December, 1939.

No. 3.-His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to revoke, with effect from the dates shown hereunder, the appointments notified respectively in the Gazette of 19th March, 1937, as Government Notification 186 and in the Gazette of 30th September, 1938, as Government Notification 752, and instead to make the following appointments:-

To be Crown Counsel, with effect from 12th May, 1938, Mr. JOHN WHYATT. To be Crown Counsel, with effect from 28th September, 1938, Mr. TREVOR JACK

GOULD.

2nd January, 1940.