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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

LOCAL RESIDENTS INVESTED.

MR. LI YAU-TS'UN, LIEUT.-COL. BIRD & MR. P. JULYAN.

BIRTHDAY HONOURS.

SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1929.

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The investiture of three of the four local residents whose names figured In the Birthday. Honours was conducted by His Excellency

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When Lt. Col. Bird and his sup- Scottish Borderers under . Mr. W. H. Fitz-Earle played the first porters had taken up their pool- six bars of the National Anthem. tions on the dafs the third pra The first procession headed by cession, headed by Captain A. J. Captain A. J. L. Whyte, R.E., and Whyte and consisting of Mr. consisting of the Hon. Mr, H. T.A. J. Reed, 1.8.0, Mr. P. Julyan, Crenay, C.B.E., Mr. Li Yau-ts'un, 1.8.0., and Mr. H. Dixon, L.S.O.. C.B.E., and the Hon. Sir Josoph proceeded to the front of the duis Kemp, K.C., C.B.E., proceeded to and halted in front of Ille Excel- the front of the daia and halted lency. The previous procedure In front of His Excellency. The was followed, Mr. Julyan being Chief Justice received a copy of addressed and invested with the the warrant from Captain Sillitoe insignia of Companion of the Im- and after rending the authorisa-perial Service Order. tim returned it to him. The war rant in Chinese was read by the Hon. Dr. Tao Seen-wan, Q.B.E addressed Mr. Li Yau-ts'un, say- ing:

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Mr. Julyan, The King has op- pointed you to be a Companion of the Imperial Service Order, and I am very glad that it has fallen to me to invest you with the insignia of that Order, because I well re- member the days in 1901 and 1902 Mr. Li Yau-ta'an,-It gives me when you were acting First Clerk Tel. C. 1030 very grent pleasure, on behalf of in the Colonial Secretary's Office His Majesty the King, to invest and I was acting as Assistant you with the insignia of Comman- | Colonial · Secretary. We were der of the, Must Excellent Order | closely associated then in the daily of the British Empire. You have now resided in Hongkong for more than fifty years and your record of public service in this Colony is most distinguished. You first became a member of the Tung Wa Hospital Committee in 1897, and you have been a member of its Advisory Board since 1900.

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office routine, and I found it a pleasure to work with you. Your service in Hongkong began as long ago as 1888 when you were a Writer in His Majesty's Naval Yard. From 1891 to 1894 you were Chief Clerk in His Majesty's Ordnance Department, and since then, with the year's interval of You were one of the principal work in the Colonial Secretary's founders of the Kwong Wa Hos Office, to which I have referred, you have been continuously em pital. You have been a member played in the Public Works De- of the District Watch Committee partment, where since 1918 you since 1914, a member of the Per-have been the Senior Clerk. Both manent Board of Directors of the on private and public grounds I Po Leung Kuk since 1912, and of the Chinese Public Dispensaries Committee since its inception. You have been on several occa- sloris Chairman of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce.

congratulate you on His Majesty's recognition of your work. Your service has been long, faithful and meritorious.

Mr. Cheng's Illness. You are a citizen of whom any After Mr. Julyan and his sup- country might well be proud, and porters had taken up their places you hold a very high place in the on the dals His Excellency address- estimation of all residents ined the audience with regard to the Hongkong, Your advice is unt-absence of Mr. Cheng Cheuk-hin on versally respected, and the Hong- account of liness. Mr. Cheng was 16 Com- kong Government has never had a to have been invested more loyal or more activo servant. panion of the Imperial Service

The Hon. Dr. T's0;.O.B.E., LL.D., Order. His Excellency said: rend the address in Chinese after which Sir Cecil Clementi received the insignia of Commander of the Order of the British Empire from Captain Whyte and invested Mr. Li Yau-ts'un, who, together with his supporters, then moved away to the dnis.

Patriotic Services. The second procession to His Excellency was headed by Captain P. Perfect, A.D.C,, and consisted of Mr. C. M. Manners, O.B.E., LA. Col. L. G. Bird, D.S.O., O.B.E., and Major C. Willson, O.BE. After the warrant had been read by the Chief Justice Ile Excellency ad- dressed Lt. Col. Bird and Invested him with the Insignia of the Or der of the British Empire.

Addressing Lt. Col. Bird His Excellency said:

Ladies and Gentlemen,The King has appointed Mr. Cheng Cheuk-hin, Higher Grade Clerk of ben Companion of the Imperial the Public Works Department, to Service Order. I very much re gret that Mr. Cheng's state health prevents him from being present here this afternoon and, in view of his medical adviser's 're- port, I propose to invest him pri- vately and not publicly with the In- signia of the Order.

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I desire, however, to avall myself of this opportunity to congratulate Mr. Cheng Cheak-hiu publicly on this recognition of his services. The Imperial Service Order consista of the Sovereign, the Prince Wales and each Companions as the Sovereign appoints. Only members of the administrative or clerical branches of His Majesty's Civil Services are eligible for companion- ship. It is ordained that the num- Colonel Bird,It gives me very|ber of Companions shall not exceed great pleasure, on behalf of His 425, of whom 250 shall belong to Majesty the King, to invest you the Home Civil Service and 175 to with the insignia of Officer in the the Civil Services of British Military Division of the Most Colonies and Protectorates. Excellent Order of the British Empire. Besides holding an

Meritorious Throughout,

honoured position in the business The precedence of Companions of community of this Colony, you the Imperial Service Order is next have for many years been anto, and Immediately after, Com- active member of the Hongkongpanions of the Distinguished Ser- Volunteer Defence Corps, which vice Order. Therefore, Hie you how command.

Majesty the King, In appointing

You joined the Hongkong Volun- Mr. Cheng to be a Companion of teer Reserves in 1909, receiving the Imperial Service Order, hos the rank of Captain and Adjul admitted him to a small and aht in 1914. Then came the honourable body of civil servants, Great War, and in December, of which he is himself the head. 1914, you voluteered for war sor distinction by long and faithful Mr. Cheng has well earned this vice. You served, in the 11th Lanenshite Fusiliers and rose to service to the Hongkong Govern- the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in ment since he first became an In. terpreter to the Police Department.

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Brownrigg, D.8.0., Colonel J. McD. Rev. H. R. Wells, D.B.E., Colonel Major R. II. Lucas, OBE, M.C., spatches in 1917. Whon the war Belections by the Band. Ilaskard, O.M.G., the Hon. Mr. R. II. A. Stewart, D.8.0., OBE, Commander Parsons, O.B.E., Lleut, kong, and on March 20, 1920, At the conclusion of the address A. C. North, the Hon. Sir Henry Colonel R. A. B. Young, OBE., Col. F. J. C. Wyatt, O.BE. M.C., you were appointed Commandant the band of the King's Own Scot. Pollock, K.C., LL.D., the Hon. Mr. Miss Brown, O.B.E., Captain Wake Major J. B. H. Doyle, O.B.B., Major of the Hongkong Volunteer De-tich Borderers played the National W. E. L. Shenton, the Hon. Mr. T. Walker, O.B.E., Mr. Ho Kom-tong, H. P. W. Hutson, D.S.O., 0.3.E., fence Corps. Since then the In-Anthem,

the H. King, the Hon. Dr. R. A. Well 0.B.E., Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.G., MC Major A. L. Robertson, Hie Excellency

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terest you have taken in the wal-Governor and Lady. Clement! thenington, the Hon. Mr. A. C, Hynes, D.B.E., Mr. H. K. Holmes, 03. 0.3. Mr. E. Cock, M.B.E., Cap- fare of the Corps has never flagg-proceeding to the body of the hall the Hon. Mr. B. D. F. Belth, the the Rov. Father Parisotti, Laut. tain W. B. Dunbar, MAB.E. and ed, and you have devoted your-where tea was served, the band, Hon. Mr. M. J. Broen, the Hon. Sir Col. Robertson, C.B.E., Mr. F. C. Leutenant 3, B. Marks, O.B.B.