(d) 1 cent copper coins.
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(e) The silver dollars and .800 fine silver sub-coin (10 cent and 5 cent pieces, and a few 50 and 20 cent pieces) which have either remained in circulation in the Colony or filter back into it from the mainland of China, are still legal tender in the Colony (sub-coin only up to an amount of $2.00). The exchange value of the Hong Kong dollar, which had gradually risen during 1934 in conformity with the rise in the price of silver, reached a maximum of between 28/6d and 28/7d in April/May 1935, and thereafter continued to follow silver until the prohibition of export in November, 1935. From then until the Currency Ordinance was passed in December, the rate moved between 18/4d and 18/6d; and, since the Exchange Fund began operating in December, has been consistently between 1/3 and 18/3d.
3. The weights and measures in use in the Colony are defined in the Schedule to Ordinance No. 2 of 1885. They consist of the standards in use in the United Kingdom and of the following Chinese Weights and Measures:
1 fan (candareen) = 0.0133 ounces avoirdupois.
1 tsin (mace) = 1.33 ounces avoirdupois.
1 leung (tael) = 1.33 ounces avoirdupois.
1 kan (catty) = 1.33 pounds avoirdupois.
1 tam (picul) = 133.33 pounds avoirdupois.
1 chek (foot) = 14.4 English inches divided into 10 tsün (inches) and each tsün into 10 fan or tenths.
Chapter XII.
PUBLIC WORKS.
During the year under review the operations of the Public Works Department were carried out, under a Head Office Staff, by eleven sub-departments, namely the Accounts and Stores, Architectural, Buildings Ordinance, Crown Lands and Surveys, Drainage, Electrical, Port Development, Roads and Transport, Valuations and Resumptions, Waterworks Construction and Waterworks Maintenance offices.
2. The European staff comprised 161 officers and the non-European approximately 685.