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NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. S. 196.-Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted against Hongkong.
Place or Port.
Dairen.
Nature of Measures.
Quarantine restrictions against all ships arriving at Dairen or Port Arthur from or by way of Canton and all other South-China ports.
Netherlands- Hongkong declared an infected port. Importation of the
India.
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 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 Cousul- General at Hongkong.
Date.
Reference to Govern. ment Ncti- fication.
31st August, 1916. | No. S. 194.
27th April, No. S. 108.
1917.
10th August, 1917.
CLAUD SEVERN,
Colonial Secretary.
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.
No. S. 197.-It is hereby notified that sealed tenders in duplicate, which should be clearly marked "Tender for the supply of Electric Current for Tai O", will be received at the Colonial Secretary's Office until Noon of Monday, the 27th day of August, 1917, for the right to supply electric current for lighting and power purposes, for a period of 15 years, to an area at Tai O on the Island of Lantao. The area referred to is shown in red on a plan which may be seen at the Public Works Office.
Tenders must contain :-
(a.) Full particulars of the proposed installation which must be carried out in
accordance with the Electricity Ordinance No. 18 of 1911.
(b.) A schedule of the maximum charges to be made per Board of Trade Unit for private house lighting and for lighting Government Buildings (in excess of the number of lights to be maintained free of cost).
(c.) A schedule of the maximum charges to be made per month for street light- ing (in excess of the number of lights to be maintained free of cost) by means of Incandescent lamps of 32, 50, and 100 candle power. The hours of lighting to be the same as those specified in the case of the City of Victoria and the prices quoted to include renewals of lamps required to maintain the lamps in an efficient condition.
(d.) A schedule of the maximum charges to be made in providing and erecting standards and lamps (in excess of the number to be provided free of cost) complete as follows:--
Incandescent standards and lamps of 32, 50, and 100 candle
power, single and in clusters of two or three lamps.
In tendering for the above, full particulars should be given of the standards and lamps proposed.