Printing Press Licences Pawnbrokers Licences
Public Skating Rink Licences Table Tennis Saloon Licences Public Entertainment Licences Mahjong
ARMS LICENSING
590
122
2
2
161
104
205. Under the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance the Commis- sioner is the licensing authority. At the end of the year there were 2,140 licenced firearms in the Colony.
206. A total of 239 arms and 8,189 rounds of ammunition were confiscated by the Courts during the year. These included twenty three revolvers, twenty three rifles, seven pistols and one shotgun.
SOCIETIES
207. The Commissioner is appointed under the Societies Ordinance to be the Registrar of Societies. During the year sixty six new societies were registered and twenty three were granted exemptions. Four societies changed their status by forming companies, thirty two closed and eleven were struck off the Register. Seventeen applications were refused during the year and 104 were under consideration on 31st March, 1958.
208. At the end of the year there were 980 societies on the Register.
29th July, 1958.
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A. C. MAXWELL, Commissioner of Police.