22. This publication is exhibited on notice boards at the Hong Kong and Kowloon Ferry Piers, the Harbour Office, at the offices of the Cable Companies and at the General Post Office. It may be purchased by the general public at a subscription rate of $15 per annum. During the year 38 companies etc. subscribed for 48 copies. The weather report and forecast, and all storm warnings, are telephoned to Stonecutters Wireless Station for transmission to H.M. ships on the China Station.
23. A weather map for 2 p.m. of the 120 meridian time is also constructed daily. It is not published, but an evening weather report and forecast, based thereon, is sent to the morning papers and exhibited on the notice boards.
24. Meteorological observations made at the Observatory at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. are published in the local press.
25. The emission in plain language of meteorological observations in the Far East ceased on May 31, and the following routine was substituted on June 1.
(a) The 2200* observations from 20 stations, in the Far East are broadcast, in the 1929 International Code, at 0400 by Stonecutters Wireless Station (GYF) on short wave (8430 kcs) and simultaneously on long wave (113 kcs). Reports from ships and upper air observations are added.
(b) The 0600 observations are similarly broadcast at 1200.
(c) The synoptic message is followed by a "general inference" coded by means of the Non-Local Storm Signal Code, adopted at a Conference of Directors of Far Eastern Weather Services held at Hong Kong in 1930, with a few words in plain language if necessary.
(d) Then follows a weather forecast for the five districts:-
Shanghai to Turnabout
Turnabout to Hong Kong
Hong Kong to Gap Rock
Hong Kong to Hainan Straits
North China Sea
(e) Typhoon warnings are given in the "general inference".
(f) The "general inference" and weather forecasts for the five districts are also broadcast in plain language by V.P.S. on 500 kcs. at 0400 and 1200 and repeated on 103 kcs. at 0500 and 1300.
*All times are G.M.T.