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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 2, 1940.

SUPREME COurt.

No. 135.- Notice is hereby given that a poll for the election of a member of the Urban Council will be held at the office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court, Hong Kong, on Thursday, the 29th day of February, 1940, between the hours of 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.

The names in alphabetical order, places of abode, and descriptions of the Candidates for election, and the names of their respective Proposers and Seconders are as follows:-

Names of Candidate (Surname first).

de Castro Basto, Roberto Alexandre.

Place of abode.

Beau Sejour, 123, Argyle Street, Kowloon.

Rodrigues,

126, Waterloo

Alberto Maria. Road, Kowloon.

Description.

General Medical Practitioner, M.D., M.R.C.S., D.O.M.S.

General Medical Practitioner, M.B., B.S.

Names of Proposer (Surname first).

Pollock, Sir Henry Edward, Kt., K.C., LL.D.

d'Almada e Castro, Leo.

Names of Seconder (Surname first).

Manners, C.M., Major, O.B.E.

Dowbiggin,

H.B.L. Honorary Lieutenant Colonel H.K.V.D.C., O.B.E.

The election will be conducted in accordance with the Rules for the election of members of the Urban Council, contained in Schedule C of the repealed Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, which said Rules remain in force by virtue of section 4 of the Urban Council Ordinance, 1935.

The right to vote at the election is governed by Section 3 of the Urban Council Ordinance, 1935, which provides that:-

The electorate shall be composed of the persons whose names shall appear in one or other of the two parts of the register hereinafter referred to.

The first part of the register shall consist of the two jurors lists for the current jury year brought into force under the provisions of the Jury Ordinance, 1887. (NOTE: A copy of the jurors lists is kept available for public inspection on the Notice Board outside the Supreme Court).

The second part of the said register, which shall be kept by the Registrar of the Supreme Court, shall consist of the names of all male persons of any of the following classes who shall have duly applied to be registered therein, and whose claims to be registered shall have been duly allowed:---

(a) unofficial members of the Executive or Legislative Council;

(b) persons of sound mind who have previously been included in the jurors lists but have been omitted therefrom on account of age or infirmity or on account of exemption granted by the Governor in Council or by the Court;

(e) barristers and solicitors in actual practice and the clerks of Solicitors in

actual practice;

(d) persons registered under section 4 of the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884, or under the Dentistry Ordinance, 1914, or under the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, 1916;

(e) editors and sub-editors of daily newspapers published in the Colony; (f) clergymen of the Church of England, Roman Catholic priests, and ministers of any congregation of Protestant Dissenters or of Jews, acting as such in the Colony ;

(g) professors and other academic officers of the University of Hong Kong;