Average Rate of
Exchange with London during the
past year.
Demund.
3.
d.
16%
(R1)
CURRENCY, BANKING, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES.
List of coins current with rela-
tive value.
The Hong Kong
silver dollar. Mexican dollar. British dollar. All of equal value.
Subsidiary coin:
Silver.
50 cents.
20
"
10
5
11
"
Copper.
One ceut.
A dollar contains
100 cents.
Legal tender currency giving particulars and Legislative Authority.
Current silver dollar no limit.
Subsidiary silver coin up to
82.
Copper cents up to $1.
Authority in Order of 11. M. the Queen in Council of 2nd February, 1895, published in Hong Kong Gorernment Gazette, Notification No. 128 of 30th March, 1895.
Estimate Aniount of
Estimated Amount of puper money in Circulation.
Coin in Circulation.
Colonial Government.
Private
Banks.
Silver dollar
no estimate.
Nil.
153,601,407
Subsidiary
coin $18,429,370
Currency in which Accounts are kept.
By By the Govt. Public.
Weights and Measures in com- mon use, and their equivalents in Imperial Weights and Measures.
Dollars Dollars
and
and
cents. cents.
Particulars of all Banks doing business in the Colony,
Name of Bank,
Number of
Establishments
in the Colony,
Under what authority established,
Sore Circulation
Capital
puik
Amount of Deposits
up.
in the Colony,
in the
Colony.
BRITISH.
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
The Imperial Weights | Chartered Bank
and Measures.
1 Fan
Chinese.
Weights.
(can- dareen)
1 T'sin
(mace) 1 Leung
(tnel) 1 Kan
(catty)
1 Tam
(pienl)
Avoirdupois.
= 0133 oz.
−0·133,,
=
J
i} lb.
133} „
of India, Australia
and China.
Mercantile Bank
of India. International Banking Corporation.
2.
Ordinance
空い
131,755,918 No
No. 2 of 1866.
million
dollars.
informa-
tion.
£3,000,000 19,848,496
P. and O. Banking
1
Corporation
Limited.
Banque de
PIndo-Chine.
National City
Bank of New York.
Length.
1 Ch'ek equal to 148 English inches, divided into 10 Ts'ün and each Ts'ün luto
10 Fan.
| Netherlands-India
Commercial
Bank.
British Govt.
Charter of 29-12-53.
Established
under authority of
State of
Connecticut Senate Re-
solution Jan-
mary, 1901, Incorporated
in England
1920.
£1,050,000 1,596,993
G.$2,500,000
£2,594,160
Frs. 120,000,000|
Act of Con- U.S.3124,000,000,
gress of
U.S.A. dated
3rd June,
1964.
(Y.100,000,000)
$8,665,600
Y.15,000,000,
Yokohama
1
Specie Bank,
Bank of Canton,
1
Limited.
Bank of Taiwan.
1
1
Ordinance
*G,55,000,000!
No. 9 of
(£4,583,000)
1907.
Netherlands
1
Trading Society.
Banque Franco-
1
| G.50,030,000
Fr8. 50,000,000
Chinoise pour le
Commerce et l'Industrie.
Bank of China.
$24.712.200
Bank of East
Asin, Lid,
2.
The Chase Bauk.
The Overseas- Chinese Banking Corporation, Ltd.
and numerous native Hongs doing some portion of bank-
ing business.
• Kowloon Branch Office.
$5,598,600,
Incorporated
1
in U.S.A.
1930.
U.S.$5,000,000
$10,000,000
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