THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEB. 23, 1906.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
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No. 158. Notice is hereby given that the Orr. MERGENTHALER COMPANY, a Corpora- tion under the Laws of the State of Delaware and having a place of business at Baltimore, State of Maryland, United States of America, having, by assignment, become entitled to the Letters Patent of the 31st March, 1903, registered in this Colony in the name of Mr. ALFRED JULIUS BOULT, in respect of an Invention for Improvements in or relating to Typographic Machines, have, in pursuance of an order by His Excellency the Governor in Council, been registered as the proprietors of the said Letters Patent.
T. SERCOMBE SMITH, Colonial Secretary.
21st February, 1906.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. 159.-Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted against Hongkong.
Place or Port.
Nature of Measure.
Date.
Reference to Govern- ment Noti-
fication.
Manila.
Hongkong vessels may bring steerage passengers, and, if 16th October, 1902.
health of Hongkong satisfactory, can proceed direct to Manila after 1st November. Fresh vegetables prohibited.
Newchwang. Importation of rags, waste paper, hair, earth and manure
from Hongkong prohibited.
No. 66C.
4th October, 1904.
No. 684,
Siam.
Burma.
Netherlands India.
Medical Inspection at Kobphra against arrivals from Hong-
kong.
Hongkong declared infected.
14th Sept., 1905.
No. 576.
16th Feb., 1906,
16th Feb., 1906.
No. 109.
No. 110.
Arrivals from Hongkong, or vessels having called there, are subject to five days' quarantine from date of departure or of last plague case on board. Importation is temporarily prohibited of animal refuse, claws and hoofs, animal or human hair and bristles, untanned hides and hides salted or cured with arsenic, raw wool and rags, bags or sacks which have already been useil, coming from or transhipped at Hongkong; also tapestry and used embroideries unless they are transported as personal baggage or in consequence of change of residence.
23rd February, 1906.
T. SERCOMBE SMITH, Colonial Secretary.
DEPARTMENT OF INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS,
No. 160. With reference to Government Notification No. 780 of November 24th, 1905, an examination for the Certificate in Elementary Hygiene granted by the Science and Art Department, South Kensington, will be held in June or July next. Particulars can be obtained on application to the Inspector of Schools; to whom Candidates should send in their applications, not later than 10 a.m. on Tuesday, 27th February.
EDWARD A. IRVING, Inspector of Schools.
22nd February, 1906.