THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 14, 1931. 569
No. 512.-It is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor in Council has given directions for the rescission of the Order of the 15th July, 1931, published in the Gazette of the 17th July, 1931, as Government Notification No. 445, declaring Swatow to be a place at which an infectious or contagious disease, namely, cholera prevailed, and the same is hereby rescinded.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
13th August, 1931.
N. L. SMITH,
Clerk of Councils.
No. 513.-It is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor in Council has given directions for the rescission of the Order of the 16th July, 1931, published in the Gazette of the 17th July, 1931, as Government Notification No. 446, declaring Pakhoi to be a place at which an infectious or contagious disease, namely, plague, prevailed, and the same is hereby rescinded.
COUNCIL CHAmber,
13th August, 1931.
NOTICES.
N. L. SMITH,
Clerk of Councils.
No. 514.
Order under section 92 (8) of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, Ordinance No. 1 of 1903, made by the Governor on the 13th day of August, 1931.
WHEREAS I, Sir WILLIAM PEEL, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 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 Sections A, B and C in New Kowloon Cemetery No. 4 (Sai Yu Shek Cemetery) shewn on a plan referred to in Government Notification No. 88 of 13th February, 1931, 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 consultation 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 13th day of August, 1931.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG.
W. PEEL,
Governor.
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