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(2.) The possibility of uniform hygrometric methods and uniform units for weather maps and other publications.
(3.) Adoption by the Japanese Authorities of the Hongkong telegraphic code for daily weather telegrams. This code is used by all the other Weather Bureaus in the Far East.
(4.) A uniform system of wireless time-signals.
The proposals were sympathetically received, but there are difficulties in adopting them which have not yet been overcome.
Staff-No change occurred in the European Staff. Mr. B.D. Evans, First Assistant, acted as Chief Assistant during the absence on leave of Mr. C.W. Jeffries from June 19 to the end of the year.
Yuen Lai Sang, VIth grade telegraphist, was promoted to Vth grade in the General Post Office on December 31.
Ip Chun Woo, probationer telegraphist, was dismissed on April 2 and was replaced by Ng Hung Kui, who resigned on August 31. His successor, Lan Sing Tong, resigned on December 31.
Government has been asked to make the scale of pay for these telegraphist-observers sufficient to attract and retain good men.
Expenditure. The annual expenditure on the Observatory for the past ten years is as follows:-
Year Total Expenditure Increase Decrease 1912 $22,595.08 1913 $24,255.49 $1,660.41 1914 $25,398.31 $1,142.82 1915 $23,233.12 $2,165.19 1916 $21,977.78 $1,255.34 1917 $26,890.50 $4,912.72 1918 $20,028.24 $6,862.26 1919 $23,450.57 $3,422.33 1920 $25,965.66 $2,515.09 1921 $32,700.51 $6,734.85* Increases to European Staff.
† Increases to Local Staff, seismograph, and instruments for upper air research.