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The Hong Kong Government Gazette Extraordinary

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1940.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

No. 887. It is hereby notified that Ilis Excellency Lieutenant-General EDWARD FELIX NORTON, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, Military Cross, having arrived in the Colony, the prescribed oaths of office were this day duly administered to His Excellency by His Honour the Chief Justice in the presence of the Executive and Legislative Councils, and that Ilis Excellency thereupon assumed the administration of the Government in virtue of IIis Majesty's Commission dated the 30th day of June, 1910.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

6th August, 1940.

T. MEGARRY,

Clerk of Councils.