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NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. S. 1-Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted against Hong Kong.
Place or Port.
Manila.
All ports in the United States of America, including the Hawaiian Is- lands.
Bangkok.
Nature of Measures.
Inspections outside Manila harbour from 20th April. Third class passengers and new crew must comply with the vaccination requirements.
Inspections outside the ports from 1st April. Steerage passengers must comply with the vaccination require- ments. Cabin passengers must produce a vaccina- tion certificate or be vaccinated by ships doctor or quarantine authorities.
Vessels detained at river mouth and passengers and crew vacciuated unless they can produce evidence of successful recent vaccination.
Date.
Reference to Government
Notification.
16th April, 1924.
30th April, 1926.
29th October,
No. S. 301.
19:6.
No. S. 2-Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted by Hong Kong.
Disease.
Port or Place.
Restrictions in Force.
Plague.
Sourabaya.
Medical examination; quarantine at the discre-
tion of the Health Officer.
Plague.
Macassar.
Do.
Authority.
Notification No. 627 of 18th November, 1926.
Notification No. 712 of 30th December, 1926.
No. S. 3. Returns of the Average Amount of BANK NOTES in Circulation and of Specie in Reserve in Hong Kong, during the month ended 31st December, 1926, as certified by the Managers of the respective Banks :-
BANKS.
AVERAGE AMOUNT.
SPECIE IN RESERVE.
Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China
15,612,909
$
5,800,000*
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation...
Mercantile Bank of India, Limited...
50,842,258
35,700,000†
1,730,584
580,000$
TOTAL
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$
68,185,751 42,080,000
* In addition Sterling Securities deposited with the Crown Agents valued at £1,254,100.
In addition Securities deposited with the Crown Agents and Straits Government valued at
£3,108,097.
In addition Securities deposited with the Crown Agents valued at £130,000.