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SUPPLEMENT 109 Mohammad Hasan Khan, Khan Bahadur, m. r. a.s., Senior Superintendent, Finance Department, Government of India, was born in April, 1870, at Rampur (United Provinces) and educated at Rampur and in the Queen's College, Benares. His father, the late M. Mohammad Yar Khan, was one of the band of the earliest co-workers with the late Sir Syed Ahmad Khan in the cause of the regeneration of the Muhammadan Community of India. The majority of his ancestors and other family members either served in the Ram- pur State or in the British Army. On the sudden death of his father he had to enter Government service at the early age of 1 6th. He joined the Munsif's Court at Benares and was soon appointed Munsarim in that Court. In 1899, he passed the competitive Examination held in those days for appointment to the Secretariat Offices of the Government of India, and in 1903, obtained an appointment in the Financial Secretariat and beginning from Rs. 175 he rose to the Senior Superintendent* ship in his department on Rs. 700 per mensem in 1913 which posts he holds at present. The title of Khan Bahadur was conferred on him, in 19 13, in recognition of his services. He is the author of several books in Urdu, mostly translations of English works. He is the President of the Indian Sports Club, Delhi, which has just been started with the Help of a donation of Rs. 5,000 from the Government. Address : Finance Depart- ment, Government of India, Delhi. NaRSINGH Das, Rai Bahadur, Lala — of the well-known firm of Lala Dinanath Sheo Prasad of Lahore, was born in 1869 and is now 45 years old. He belongs to a Khatri family which migrated to Lahore from Delhi more than fifty years ago. He is a treasury contractor to the Post Offices in the Punjab/ North- West Frontier Province and Beluchistan and is well known as a prominent business man and house proprietor in Lahore. Though he has never taken a prominent part in public affairs in the political sense he has done much and valuable work in the interest of the public. Address: Lahore.