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NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT,
No. S. 152. Returns of the Average Amount of BANK NOTES in Circulation and -of Specie in Reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 31st July, 1916, as
certified by the Managers of the respective Banks:
BANKS,
AVERAGE AMOUNT.
SPECIE IN RESERVE.
$
Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China,
7,719,107
5,000,000*
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,
24,895,451
20,000,000
Mercantile Bank of India, Limited,
1,073,770
350,000†
TOTAL,
33,688,328
25,350,000
Sterling Securities deposited with the Crown Agents valued at £150,000. † Securities with the Crown Agents £68,040.
No. S. 153. The following statement of the securities lodged with the Crown Agents by the Mercantile Bank of India, Limited, against their notes in circulation, is published for general information under Section 5 of the Mercantile Bank Note Issue Ordinance, 1911, (Ordinance No. 65 of 1911):--
Security.
Amount,
Nominal Value.
Price when deposited.
Latest market price.
Bombay Port Trust 4% Bonds,...
£10,000
£100
971/983
76%
Southern Punjab Railway 4%
Preference Stock,
£23,040
£100
92/94
86
Madras and Southern Maharatta
4% Debenture Stock..........................
£35,000
£100
98/100
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No. S. 154. Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted against Hongkong.
Place or Port.
Netherlands- India,
Nature of Measures.
Date.
Reference to Govern- ment Nori-
fication.
Hongkong declared an infected port. Importation of the 29th April, 1916. No. S. 78.
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 Inggage 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 newspaper, 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.
Siam
Hongkong declared a suspected port on account of Small-pox.
All vessels must call at Kohphra to be examined.
11th May, 1916.
No. S. 92.
4th August, 1916.
CLAUD SEVERN,
Colonial Secretary.