Annual submission date of names and addresses in Hong Kong
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Submitted by jill on Sat, 2020-03-07 07:13
Do we know by which date names and addresses had to be submitted for publication in the Jurors Lists and the Ladies Directories and who to? It would be useful to know how and when this was done in order to track people's movements more precisely.
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The Jury Ordinance of 1887
The Jury Ordinance of 1887 has these notes about how the lists were drawn up:
Submission dates of names and addresses in Hong Kong
Thanks for digging out this information, David. The Registrar must have had access to an up to date list of Europeans in Hong Kong at any one time, even if newly arrived and living in a hotel. Perhaps Chinese New Year was the moment for drawing up the new Jurors Lists rather than 1st January. As to the Ladies Directories that appear as a part of the South China Directory, I wonder if there was some sort of postal reminder asking people to update their name and address and whether the submission date was synchronised with the date for drawing up the Jurors Lists. Were there also annually published telephone directories printed in English? If so, have examples been kept?