620091-1931-Public-and-General-Holidays — Page 1

782 THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 27, 1931.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S Department.

No. 737.-The following Public and General Holidays will be observed as Government Holidays in 1932 :-

Public Holiday :

Empire Day, or if that day should be a Sunday Tuesday, 24th May.

then the following day

Every Sunday

General Holidays :

.Friday, 1st January.

Saturday, 6th February..

The First week-day in January

Chinese New Year's Day, or if that day should be

a Sunday then the following day..

The First week-day following Chinese New Year's Day, or if Chinese New Year's Day should

be a Sunday then the Tuesday following Monday, 8th February.

Chinese New Year's Day

Good Friday

The day following Good Friday

Easter Monday

.Friday, 25th March.

.Saturday, 26th March. Monday, 28th March.

Whit Monday....

.Monday, 16th May.

The Birthday of His Majesty the King, unless it

shall be ordered by the Governor, by an order

published in the Gazette, that His Majesty's Friday, 3rd June. Birthday is to be kept on some other day,

and then, such other day.

The first week-day in July

The first Monday in August..

The first Monday in September

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The tenth day of October, or if that day should

be a Sunday then the following day

Armistice Day, or if that day should be a Sunday

then the following day

Christmas Day, or if that day should be a Sunday

then the following day

The twenty-sixth day of December, or if that day.

Friday, 1st July.

.Monday, 1st August. Monday, 5th September. Monday, 10th October.

Friday, 11th November.

Monday, 26th December.

should be a Sunday then the following day, Tuesday, 27th December. or if Christmas Day should be a Sunday then the Tuesday following Christmas Day...

It is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to exclude the Police Magistrate's Department from the operation of the Holidays Ordinance, 1912, Ordinance No. 5 of 1912, on the 8th February, 26th and 28th March, 16th May, 1st August, 5th September, 10th October, and 26th December, 1932.

The Imports and Exports Department will be open for the purpose of Revenue collection and issue of permits only from 9 a.m. to 12 Noon on all the above days except. Sundays, Chinese New Year's Day, Good Friday, 10th October, and Christmas Day.

W. T. SOUTHORN,

27th November, 1931.

Colonial Secretary.