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NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT,
No. S. 117.---Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted against Hongkong.
Place or Port.
Nature of Measures.
Date.
Reference to Govern- ment Noti. fication.
Tientsin.
Hongkong declared a Plague-infected port.
Netherlands- India.
24th April, 1914. | No. S. 122.
Hongkong declared an infected port. Importation of the 14th May, 1915. No. S. 112.
following articles from Hongkong or transshipped at this port is temporarily prohibited :—(1) wearing apparel, old and worn clothes, household effects for daily use, and used bedding, unless these goods are transported as personal luggage or in consequence of removal. (2) rags. (Re- fuse of new goods coming direct from the weaving-mills, from workshops where apparel is made or from bleaching- establishments, artificial wool, and cuttings of new paper, are not considered as rags.)
Quarantine up to 21 days according to the state of health on board the ships but subject to exemption on production of certificates legalised by the Netherlands Consul- General at Hongkong.
21st May, 1915.
CLAUD SEVERN,
Colonial Secretary.
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.
No. S. 118. It is hereby notified that sealed tenders in duplicate, which should be clearly marked "Tender for Lease of part of Old Supreme Court Building", will be received at the Colonial Secretary's Office until Noon of Wednesday, the 26th day of May, 1915, for the lease of certain rooms on the Ground and First Floors of Old Supreme Court Building from 1st June, 1915, to 31st December, 1916, subject to certain conditions which can be ascertained at the Office of the Director of Public Works.
Each tender must be accompanied by a receipt to the effect that the tenderer has deposited in the Colonial Treasury a sum of Five Hundred Dollars ($500) as a pledge of the bona fides of his offer, which sum shall be forfeited to the Crown if the tenderer refuses to carry out his tender and comply with the above-mentioned conditions, should the tender be accepted.
Form of tender and further particulars can be obtained from the Office of the Director of Public Works.
The Government does not bind itself to accept the highest or any tender.
21st May, 1915.
No. S. 119.
NOTICES TO MARINERS.
TRANSLATION.
W. CHATHAM,
Director of Public Works.
ON April 18th (May 1st) the lights have been resumed at the entrance from St. Olga's Bay into Tikhaia Priston (Peaceful Harbour).