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is navigated with due care and at a moderate speed, shall
apply within the limits of Hong Kong Harbour.
These proposals have already been laid before
the Hong Kong Government by the Commander-in-Chief but
were not found acceptable. My Lords consider however
-that some such regulation is desirable, and that if the
present proposals are unacceptable to the Hong Kong
Harbour Authorities, a satisfactory compromise might be
to limit the application of the regulations to the
Eastern Fairway, which could be specified in detail,
between Lyemun Pass and the man of war anchorage;
harbour craft crossing this fairway would be obliged to
give way to sea-going steam vessels or steam vessels
towing and that the rule, set out above, concerning the
use of the four blast signal shall apply within this area.
In the above proposed rules, a definition of the
term Harbour Craft should be incorporated in a note, to
comprise, by name, all types of harbour craft to be dealt
with at Hong Kong, on the same lines as the definition in
the Singapore Port rules.
/Attention