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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 28, 1936.
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL,
No. 193.
Hong Kong.
LIQUORS DUTIES RESOLUTION.
Resolved pursuant to section 39 of the Liquors Ordin- ance, 1931, Ordinance No. 36 of 1931, that the Resolution of the 28th March, 1935, published by Notification No. 255 in the Hong Kong Government Gazette of the 29th March, 1935, be rescinded and that on and after the coming into operation of this Resolution the duties to be paid upon intoxicating or spirituous liquors imported into, or distilled, made or prepared in, the Colony shall be assessed as in the following Table: Provided that the dollars stated in the Table shall be conventional dollars reckoned as the equivalent of one shilling and eight pence sterling; and that consequently to arrive at the actual amount payable in Hong Kong currency the dollars and decimals thereof, stated in the Table, shall be multiplied by 20 and divided by a figure settled by the Treasurer from time to time representing the average opening selling rates for the previous month of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation for demand drafts on London and until so settled the figure shall be 15.87.
TABLE.
Part I.
EUROPEAN TYPE LIQUOR.
Per gallon,
On all liqueurs, and on all champagnes and other
sparkling wines
$10.00
On all brandy consigned from and grown or pro-
duced in the British Empire
3.00
On all other brandy and on gin, whisky and other
spirituous liquors
6.00
On all port, sherry and madeira
4.00
3.00
0.60
On all other still wines
On cider and perry
On beer (as defined in the Ordinance, but exclusive of cider and perry) not exceeding 1055 degrees original gravity, that is to say the specific gravity of the worts before fermentation
with the addition of $0.01 per gallon for every degree by which the original gravity of the worts for such beer exceeds 1055 degrees as measured by the "Bates" standard saccharometer.
On all other beer (as defined in the Ordinance, but exclusive of cider and perry) whether in con- centrated form, or as ale basis, or malt and hops concentrate, or otherwise
0.60
0.60