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The Conference recommended that the Hong Kong Code of Local Storm Signals, as amended at the Conference, should be adopted by Weather Services in the Far East which use Local Storm Signal, and that the China Seas Storm Signal Code, as revised by the Director of the Royal Observatory, Hong Kong, and amended at the Conference, be adopted by Weather Services in the Far East which use a Non-Local Storm Signal Code. The Conference also recommended that the Six-letter Code for transmission of weather telegrams by cable proposed by the Director of the Royal Observatory, Hong Kong, as amended at the Conference, should be adopted throughout the Far East.
A report on the Conference, including 13 other resolutions adopted, has been printed and circulated to the principal observatories of the world.
Visitors. Lieut.-Comdr. H. Huang, C.N. who relieved Lieut.-Comdr. Y. C. Shen as Director of the Pratas Meteorological Station, visited the Observatory on March 29, prior to sailing for Pratas. Commodore R. A. S. Hill, R.N. with Comdrs. Maxwell and Law, on March 31. Lieut-Comdr. Y. C. Shen, Director of the Pratas Meteorological Station on April 9, en route from Pratas to Shanghai. Brig-General Winterbotham, on a tour of Empire Survey inspection, on April 17. Captain Plexton, Commander of the Revenue cutter Pingching, on July 12, en route to Pratas.
Parties of students from St. Stephen's Girls School visited the Observatory on March 12 and 19, from Middle Light School, Canton, on April 15, from the Chu Chih Hsien Memorial School on April 21, and from the Chinese Y.M.C.A. on October 30.
Staff. No change occurred in the European or local staff during the year.
Expenditure. The annual expenditure on the Observatory for the past ten years is as follows:
Year Total Expenditure Increase Decrease $ C. $ C. 1921 32,700.51 1922 38,350.10 5,649.59 1923 38,522.58 172.48 1924 52,638.49 14,115.91 1925 41,955.51 10,682.98 1926 45,158.87 3,203.36 ... 1927 36,664.99 8,493.88 1928 35,434.52 1,230.47 1929 35,141.07 293.45 1930 54,133.40 18,992.33