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NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. S. 317.-Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted against Hong Kong.
Place or Port.
Nature of Measures.
Date.
Reference to Government Notification,
Manila.
All ports in the United States of America, including the Hawaiian Is- lands.
Bangkok.
Inspections outside Manila harbour from 20th April. Third class passengers and new crew must comply with the vaccination requirements.
Inspections outside the ports from 1st April. Steerage passengers must comply with the vaccination require- ments. Cabin passengers must produce a vaccina- tion certificate or be vaccinated by ships doctor or quarantine authorities.
Vessels detained at river mouth and passengers and crew vaccinated unless they can produce evidence of successful recent vaccination.
16th April, 1924.
30th April, 1926.
29th October, 1926.
No. S. 301.
No. S. 318.-Returns of the Average Amount of BANK NOTES in Circulation and of Specie in Reserve in Hong Kong, during the month ended 30th September, 1928, as certified by the Managers of the respective Banks :-
BANKS.
AVERAGE AMOUNT.
SPECIE IN RESERVE.
$
$
Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China
14,740,336
5,900,000*
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation....
Mercantile Bank of India, Limited...
46,800,733
34,000,000+
1,878,277
660,000$
TOTAL
$$
63,419,346
40,560,000
* In addition Sterling Securities are deposited with the Crown Agents valued at £1,278,200.
In addition Securities deposited with the Crown Agents and Straits Government valued at
£2,993,202.
§ In addition Securities deposited with the Crown Agents valued at £180,000.
No. S. 319. 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.
51% Treasury Bonds repayable
@100 in 1930
£180,000
5th October, 1928.
1013-1019
E. R. HALLIFAX,
Colonial Secretary.