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    The 1914 Hong Kong Sanitary Board by-election was held on 1 May 1914 for one of the two unofficial seats in the Sanitary Board of Hong Kong. It was a...
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  • The 1915 Hong Kong Sanitary Board election was held on 22 January 1915 for the two unofficial seats in the Sanitary Board of Hong Kong. Only ratepayers...
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    The 1912 Hong Kong Sanitary Board election was held on 19 January 1912 for the two unofficial seats in the Sanitary Board of Hong Kong. Only ratepayers...
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    F. B. L. Bowley (category Members of the Sanitary Board of Hong Kong)
    Francis Bulmer Lyon Bowley was a Hong Kong solicitor and member of the Sanitary Board. Bowley went to Hong Kong in 1903 as an associate at Henry Lardner...
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    Legislative Council (LegCo) in the 2021 election and the Chief Executive of Hong Kong (CE) in the 2022 election. Based on the new electoral framework imposed...
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    P. W. Goldring (category Members of the Sanitary Board of Hong Kong)
    after living 17 years in Hong Kong. During his residence in Hong Kong, he was elected to the Sanitary Board in 1914 by-election caused by the absence of...
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    Henry Pollock (category Members of the Sanitary Board of Hong Kong)
    returned to Hong Kong a year later. A year in Fiji did not weaken his influence in Hong Kong: he went on to serve as a member of the Sanitary Board from March...
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    process of Hong Kong. The election's purpose is to decide the 1,044 members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong. The resulting Election Committee is...
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    Executive of Hong Kong (CE) in the 2017 election. Although incumbent Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying announced, two days before the election, that he would...
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  • Election Committee for electing the Chief Executive of Hong Kong in the following Chief Executive election in March. Four vacancies were identified in the following...
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    from 31 subsectors after the subsector elections. A Election Committee was set up under the Annex I of the Hong Kong Basic Law with four sectors, each comprising...
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    Election Committee. The Election Committee was responsible for electing the Hong Kong SAR Chief Executive in 2007 Chief Executive Election. In 2002, Tung Chee-hwa...
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    Election Committee constituency, as well as the Chief Executive of Hong Kong in the following 2002 Chief Executive election. The 800-member Election Committee...
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    French city of Lyon. P. W. Goldring was elected to the Sanitary Board of Hong Kong in a by-election for one of the two unofficial seats, beating rival William...
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  • Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory. In 1994, the Heung Yee Kuk drew up a set of "Model Rules" for the elections of some 700 villages, which...
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  • companies of the 1830s and 1840s to be a dangerous element – both for its sanitary condition and volatile nature. This prompted the creation of the United...
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  • subsectors of the Election Committee for electing the Hong Kong Chief Executive in the Chief Executive election in following March. Tung Chee Hwa had long been...
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    Dog meat (section Hong Kong)
    2020 to end dog meat consumption. In Hong Kong, the Dogs and Cats Ordinance was introduced by the British Hong Kong Government on 6 January 1950. It prohibits...
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    Hong Kong was especially important to him; although the Chinese Communists promised to not interfere with its rule, Britain reinforced the Hong Kong Garrison...
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  • the right of Americans to earn a living wage and to live and work "in sanitary surroundings" in his 1919 State of the Union Address). However, despite...
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    China. Most Chinatown residents have origins in Guangdong Province and Hong Kong; albeit there are some Mandarin-speaking residents from Taiwan and central...
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    1914, p. 93 Ch. 4 Starr, J. Barton, ed. (1988). The United States Constitution: Its Birth, Growth, and Influence in Asia. Hong Kong, China: Hong Kong...
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    distribution, as it is the third-largest inter-modal port in the world after Hong Kong and Singapore. The city of Chicago has a higher than average percentage...
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    1912, Lugard returned to Nigeria from his six-year term as Governor of Hong Kong, to oversee the merger of the northern and southern protectorates. On...
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    were passed. In addition, the Public Health (Scotland) Act instituted sanitary inspectors and medical officers. According to one study, "better sanitation...
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    elections were repealed and Peronism was prohibited once again. Arturo Illia was elected in 1963 and led an increase in prosperity across the board;...
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    also signified the acceptance of both countries that sovereignty over Hong Kong would be transferred from the United Kingdom to China in 1997. By the...
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  • York City The British Government announced that the naval dockyard in Hong Kong would close by November 30, 1959. The second of two Rolls-Royce Thrust...
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    biscuits.[citation needed] Until 2001, VAT was charged at the full rate on sanitary towels. VAT was introduced in 1973, in consequence of Britain's entry to...
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    administration became formal in 1906. Following the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Australian forces captured German New Guinea and occupied it throughout...
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