HONG KONG URBAN COUNCIL
DR. LEE:-I would be very glad to convey your wishes to Mr. BERNACCHI.
MR. CHAN SHU-WOON, Chairman of the Cemeteries, Crematoria and Funeral Parlours Select Committee, moved the following motion:
RESOLVED under By-law 10(1) of the Public Cemeteries By-laws, 1960, that the Director of Urban Services be empowered to exhume and remove the human remains of persons from the graves specified in the following public cemeteries and to dispose of the same by burial, cremation or otherwise as the Director may think fit.
HONG KONG URBAN COUNCIL
OFFICIAL RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS. Meeting of 7th August, 1962.
PRESENT:
THE CHAIRMAN, URBAN COUNCIL, THE HONOURABLE K. S. KINGHORN
THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH SERVICES, VICE-CHAIRMAN,
DR. P. H. TENG, O.B.E.
THE SECRETARY FOR CHINESE AFFAIRS, THE HONOURABLE J. C. McDOUALL
THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS,
THE HONOURABLE A. INGLIS, C.M.G.
THE DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL WELFARE, MR. D. W. B. BARON
THE COMMISSIONER FOR RESETTLEMENT.
MR. C. G. M. MORRISON
DR. R. H. S. LEE, M.B.E.
MR. CHAN SHU-WOON
DR. A. M. S. BELL
DR. P. F. WOO
MR. H. CHEONG-LEEN
MR. A. de O. SALES
MR. K. A. WATSON
MR. ERNEST C. WONG
MR. J. L. MARDEN
MR. FUNG HON-CHU
MR. WILFRED S. B. WONG
MR. WILSON T. S. WANG
THE SECRETARY, URBAN COUNCIL, MR. T. S. D. WHITLEY
THE DEPUTY SECRETARY, URBAN COUNCIL, MR. H. H. ROSS
ABSENT:
MR. B. A. BERNACCHI, Q.C.
MR. LI YIU-BOR
THE HONOURABLE LI FOOK-SHU
MR. K. S. LO
Cemetery Section Year of Burial (1) Wo Hop Shek Cemetery, Fanling, New Territories. All graves in Sections A and B and including those in private lots. 1956 (2) Sandy Ridge Cemetery, Lo Wu, New Territories. (a) Section THe said: As the Chairman of the Select Committee, Mr. Chairman, I wish to move the motion standing in my name.
DR. LEE :-Mr. Chairman, as this is one of those statutory motions, which give you the power to exhume human remains of persons from the graves specified in the Schedule, I have no personal objections, and in fact I second the motion.
The question was put.
The motion was carried.
CHAIRMAN:-That concludes the business of this meeting. Council stands adjourned until Tuesday, 7th August, 1962.
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DR. LEE:-I would be very glad to convey your wishes to Mr.
BERNACCHI.
MR. CHAN SHU-WOON, Chairman of the Cemeteries, Crematoria and Funeral Parlours Select Committee, moved the following motion:
RESOLVED under By-law 10(1) of the Public Cemeteries
By-laws, 1960, that the Director of Urban Services be empowered to exhume and remove the human remains of persons from the graves specified in the following public cemeteries and to dispose of the same by burial, crema- tion or otherwise as the Director may think fit.
HONG KONG URBAN COUNCIL
OFFICIAL RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS. Meeting of 7th August, 1962.
PRESENT:
THE CHAIRMAN, URBAN COUNCIL, THE HONOURABLE K. S. KINGHORN
THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH SERVICES,
VICE-CHAIRMAN,
DR. P. H. TENG, O.B.E.
THE SECRETARY FOR CHINESE AFFAIRS, THE HONOURABLE J. C. McDOUALL
THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS,
THE HONOURABLE A. INGLIS, C.M.G.
THE DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL WELFARE, MR. D. W. B. BARON
Cemetery
Section
Year of Burial
(1) Wo Hop Shek
All graves in Sections A
1956
Cemetery, Fan-
and B and including those
ling, New Territories.
in private lots.
(2) Sandy Ridge
Wu, New Territories.
(a) Section T
1956
THE COMMISSIONER FOR RESETTLEMENT.
Cemetery, Lo
(b) Roman Catholic
MR. C. G. M. MORRISON
1956
Private Lot
DR. R. H. S. LEE, M.B.E.
(c) Little Sisters of the
1956
MR. CHAN SHU-WOON
Poor Private Lot
DR. A. M. S. BELL
(3) Sandy Ridge
All graves in the Govern-
1960
DR. P. F. WOO
(Urn) Cemetery,
ment Urn Section.
MR. H. CHEONG-LEEN
Lo Wu, New Territories.
MR. A. de O. SALES
MR. K. A. WATSON
(4) Prison Cemetery,
Stanley.
All graves in the coffin section.
1956
MR. ERNEST C. WONG
MR. J. L. MARDEN
MR. FUNG HON-CHU
He said: As the Chairman of the Select Committee, Mr. Chair- man, I wish to move the motion standing in my name.
DR. LEE :-Mr. Chairman, as this is one of those statutory motions, which give you the power to exhume human remains of persons from the graves specified in the Schedule, I have no personal objections, and in fact I second the motion.
The question was put.
The motion was carried.
MR. WILFRED S. B. WONG
MR. WILSON T. S. WANG
THE SECRETARY, URBAN COUNCIL, MR. T. S. D. WHITLEY
THE DEPUTY SECRETARY, URBAN COUNCIL, MR. H. H. ROSS
ABSENT:
ADJOURNMENT.
CHAIRMAN:-That concludes the business of this meeting. Council stands adjourned until Tuesday, 7th August, 1962.
MR. B. A. BERNACCHI, Q.C.
MR. LI YIU-BOR
THE HONOURABLE LI FOOK-SHU MR. K. S. LO
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