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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 25, 1939.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. 687.-lis Majesty the KING has not been advised to exercise his power of disallowance with respect to the following Ordinance :-

Ordinance No. 24 of 1939. —An Ordinance to continue and amend the Sterling

Salaries Conversion Ordinance, 1937.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

24th August, 1939.

C. B. BURGESS,

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

APPOINTMENTS, &c.

No. 688.--- His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Mr. STEPHEN FRANCIS BALFOUR to be Assistant District Officer in the Northern District of the New Territories, with effect from 9th August, 1939.

25th August, 1939.

No. 689.-His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve the following promotions in the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, with effect from 10th August, 1939:

To be Majors-

Captain Thomas Addis Martin.

Captain Hubert Gladstone Williams.

To be Captains—

Lieutenant John Roy Way.

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Henrique Alberto de Barros Botelho.

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Arthur Nathaniel Braude.

Frederick Anselm Redmond.

Ronald Mackay Wood.

John Watson.

George Frederick Rees.

Second Lieutenant Charles Walter Liddon Cole.

To be Lieutenants -

Neill Garland.

Second Lieutenant Samuel Victor Gittins.

24th August, 1939.

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Wilfred Herbert Owen.

Francisco Vicente Vieira Ribeiro.

Gordon Patrick Ferguson.

Claude Austin.

Donald James Neville Anderson.

Eric MacDonald Bryden.

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