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COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. S. 357.-It is hereby notified that sealed tenders in triplicate, which should be clearly marked "Tender for Passenger and Vehicles Ferry" are hereby called for.
TIME FOR TENDERING AND SUBJECT MATTER.
1. The tenders will be received at the Colonial Secretary's Office until Noon on Mon- day, the 4th day of January, 1932, and will be for a licence for the exclusive maintenance of a ferry service for the conveyance of persons and things (including vehicles) between the frontages herein specified of Victoria and Kowloon Peninsula, for a period or term of Fifteen years commencing on the 1st day of January, 1933, or, if Government Jubilee Street Pier be not then completed, on the day of the opening of such pier.
FERRY POINTS, FRONTAGES AND FERRY-RUNS.
2.-(1) The ferry points or piers and the frontages are :---
In Victoria.
Point or Pier-Government Jubilee Street Pier (when construction is completed.
Pending completion-Western Market Pier).
Frontage The Praya from On Tai Street to Queen Victoria Street.
N.B.-The Western Market Pier is the pier at present used by the Mongkok and Shamshuipo Ferry service.
any
In Kowloon Peninsula.
(a) Point or Pier-Government Jordan Road Pier (in course of construction).
Frontage--North side of Waterloo Road to the North face of Public Pier at
Tsim Sha Tsui.
(b) Point or Pier-Government Mong Kok Tsui Pier.
Frontage From North side of Waterloo Road to Prince Edward Road.
Point or Pier-Government Sham Shui Po l'ier.
Frontage the North side of Prince Edward Road to the N.W. boundary of
the Military Camp at Sham Shui Po.
(2) The ferry-runs are between :
(a) Government Jubilee Street Pier and Government Jordan Road Pier. (b) Government Jubilee Street Pier and Government Mong Kok Tsui Pier.
(e) Government Jubilee Street Pier and Government Sham Shui Po Pier.
The licensing of any other ferry or ferries under the Ferries Ordinance, 1917, or under other enactment amending the same or substituted therefor, between any other front- ages, or between one of the said frentages and some other frontage, will not infringe on the licensee's rights and he shall make no claim in respect of any such other ferry.
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Note.-Regulation 1 (3) of the Ferries Regulations is as follows (3) Any Ferry point may be a point of radiation common to or used by more than one ferry.
SERVICE TO BE PROVIDED.
3.-(1) The service to be provided on the 1st day of January, 1933, and to be main- tained thereafter during the subsistence of the term of the licence, including any and every extension thereof in case of renewal under the Ferries Regulations, shall be a service for the conveyance of passengers and things, including in the case of the Government Jubilee Street Pier-Government Jordan Road Pier ferry-un laden and unladen motor vehicles, conducted by means of ferry vessels designed, constructed and maintained for the purpose having regard to the Government Piers to be used in such service, plans of which may be seen at the Public Works Department and at the Harbour Office.