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silver, gold ornaments being worn in profusion. Festival periods and other propitious dates according to the Chinese calendar feature as an important element in the selection of the day for the ceremony.

Companies, Trade Marks and Patents

227 new Hong Kong companies were registered in 1951, and 19 companies incorporated outside the Colony registered the prescribed documents in order to carry on business here. One great advantage of incorporation in Hong Kong is that the maximum fee payable in respect of nominal share capital is only $500.

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64 companies went into voluntary liquidation, 46 completed liquidation, and 42 were struck off the Register. This left 2,396 Hong Kong companies on the Register at the end of the which 433 foreign corporations have registered the required documents to enable them to carry on business in the Colony.

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1,017 applications for the registration of new trade marks were received in 1951, and 797 new trade marks were registered. The total number of trade marks on the Register at the end of the year was 7,467.

A new Register of Patents was opened on 1st September 1950, the old Register having been lost during the Japanese occupation of the Colony. During 1951 30 new patents were registered. The total number registered is now 70.

Official Receiver

There were two large bankruptcies in the latter part of the year, and in addition an Order was made for the administration in bankruptcy of the estate of a deceased.

Also in the latter part of the year, Orders were made for the compulsory winding up of three companies, including one bank. These are the first compulsory liquidations since the war.

POLICE

High praise was bestowed on the Hong Kong Police by the Secretary of State for the Colonies in his address to the people of Hong Kong during his December visit.

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In fact the Secretary of State expressed the feelings of the majority in the Colony when he complimented the Force on its work. a difficult land frontier and a long and varied coastline including many islands, and with thousands of refugees living on a low margin of existence, the satisfactory state of law and order maintained and the

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