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NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. S. 305.-Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted against Hongkong.
Place or Port.
Netherlands- India.
Nature of Measures.
Date.
Hongkong declared an infected port. Importation of the 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.
14th May, 1915.
24th December, 1915.
Reference to Govern- ment Noti-
fication.
No. S. 112.
CLAUD SEVERN,
· Colonial Secretary.
SUPREME COURT.
No. S. 306.--The offices of the Supreme Court will be open daily from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. during the Christmas Vacation, except on Public Holidays when the offices will be entirely closed, subject, however, to the provisions of Section 5 of the Supreme Court. (Vacations) Ordinance, 1898, so far as it relates to the Criminal Sessions. The Christ- mas Vacation commences on the 24th instant and terminates on the 1st January, 1916, (both days inclusive).
24th December, 1915.
HUGH A. NISBET,
Registrar.
LAND OFFICE.
No. S. 307. It is hereby notified that the following Sales of Crown Land by Public Auction will be held at the District Office, Tai Po, at 11 a.m., on Wednesday, the 29th day of December, 1915.
The Lots are sold for the term of Seventy-five years from the 1st day of July, 1898, with the right of renewal for a further term of 24 years less 3 days at a re-assessed Crown Rent, No. 1 as a Threshing Floor Lot and Nos. 2 to 5 as Building Lots, subject to the General Conditions of Sale published in Government Notification No. 365 of 1906 and to the Special Condition No. 5 published in Government Notification No. 278 of 1911. No. 1 is further subject to Special Condition No. 1 published in Government Notification 697 of 1909.
The amount to be spent in rateable improvements on each of the Building Lots under the General Condition No. 5 is $100.