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Visitors.-30 students from St. Stephen's Girls' College visited the Observatory on April 14.
Staff-No change occurred in the European or Local Staff during the year. Mr. C. W. Jeffries acted as Director of the Observatory during the absence on leave of Mr. T. F. Claxton from April 5 to November 11, and Mr. B. D. Evans acted as Chief Assistant.
The Strike. On leaving the Observatory on June 26 the printer and his assistant were assaulted by intimidators, so failed to attend on June 27 and 28. In consequence the weather reports for these days were not issued until June 29 when the printers returned to duty. This was the only interruption caused by the strike, so far as the routine work of the Observatory was concerned.
Expenditure. The annual expenditure on the Observatory for the past ten years is as follows :-
Year. Total Expenditure. Increase. Decrease. $ C. $ c. $ C. 1916 21,977.78 1,255.34 1917 26,890.50 4,192.72 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 1922 38,350.10 5,649.59 1923 38,522.58 172.48 1924 52,638.49 14,115.91 1925 41,955.51 10,682.98Acknowledgements.--Acknowledgements are here made to the Directors of Weather Services in the Far East, and the Chinese Maritime Customs authorities, for daily observations and extra observations during typhoon weather, to the Telegraph Companies for transmitting the observations free of charge, to the Commanders of vessels who have furnished meteorological observations by post and by radio telegraphy, to the Directors of the various Observatories and Institutions, and private persons, who have presented their publications to the Library, and to the Observatory staff for the efficient manner in which they have carried out their respective duties.
T. F. CLAXTON,
Director.
18th February, 1926.