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No. S. 292.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
HARBOUR NOTIFICATION.
No. 7 or 1916.
REFERRING to Harbour Notification No. 4 of 1916, Notice is hereby given that, the Superintendent of Customs and the Treaty Power Consuls having withdrawn the declara- tion of cholera-infection against those ports,
the medical inspection of vessels arriving from Japanese Ports is discontinued.
Approved:
F. S. UNWIN,
Commissioner of Customs.
CUSTOM HOUSE,
SHANGHAI, 22nd November, 1916.
WM. CARLSON,
Harbour Master
SANITARY Department.
No. S. 275.--It is hereby notified that sealed tenders in duplicate, which should be clearly marked "Tender for the supply of labour for Watering the Streets", will be received at the Colonial Secretary's Office until Noon of Tuesday, the 5th December, 1916, for the supply of labour for Watering the Streets in the City of Victoria for one year ending 28th February, 1918.
In dry weather one Chinese foreman and not more than twenty coolies will be required every day and they will be required to work eight hours a day.
Tenderers must produce a receipt that they have deposited in the Colonial Treasury the sum of $100 as a pledge of the bona fides of their tender, which sum shall be forfeited to the Crown, if any tenderer fails or refuses to carry out his tender, should the tender be accepted. ~
For full particulars apply at the Office of the Secretary to the Sanitary Board.
For form of tender apply at the Colonial Secretary's Office.
The successful tenderer will be required to sign a formal contract containing con- ditions to be prescribed by the Board and also to give security by depositing a sum of $200 in the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in the name of the Honourable Colonial Treasurer: failing compliance with these requirements the sum deposited by the tenderer will be forfeited.
The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender.
D. W. TRATMAN, Head of the Sanitary Departmen!.
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17th November, 1916.
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