Average Rate of Exchange with London
during the
past year.
Demand.
4. d.
1
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CURRENCY, BANKING, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES.
List of coins
eurrent with rela-
tive value.
Hong Kong
Silver Dollar. Mexican Dollar. British Dollar. All of equal value.
Subsidiary coin:
Silver.
50 cents.
20 LO
3
་་
*
"
Legal tender currency giving
particulars and
Legislative Authority.
No Limit.
Order of H. M. The Queen in Council dated 2nd February, 1896, published in Hong Kong Government Gazette, Notification No. 128 of 30th March, 1895.
Estimated Amount of Coin in Circulation,
Estimated Amount of paper money in Circulation.
No estimate.
Up to $2.
Do.
$13,956,763
Copper.
Up to $1,
Do.
One cent.
Cupra Nickel,
10 cents.
5
Up to $2. Proelanation No. 4
by the Officer Administering
The Government of Hong
A dellur eontains
Issued since 1923 $340,000
Previously
no estimate.
Kong dated 9th November, $288,300 1935.
C'olonial Government.
| $1,280,000
Que Dollar
Private Banks.
136,217,290
Notes issued
| Currency by Hongkong notes issued Bud Shanghai by the Tren- Banking
Corporation.
surer.
Legal tender Chartered to any amount Bank of India, ander Ordin- Australia and ance No. 42 China.
of 1935.
| Mercantile ¡Bank of India, Limited.
Legal tender to any amount. under Ordin- aneo No. 54 of 1935.
100 eeuts,
Particulars of all Banks doing business in the Colony,
Number of
Establishments
The Lodonty
Under what authority established,
Capital paid
Note Circulation
|
in the Colony,
Currency in which Accounts
are kept.
By By the! Govt. Publie.!
Dollars Dollars
and nul cents. ccnty.
Weights and Mensures in com- mou use, and then
equivalents in Imperial Weights. and Measures.
BRITISH.
The Imperial Weights
and Measures.
CHINESE.
Weights.
Name of Bank.
Flongkong and Shanghai Brunking Corporation. Chartered Bank of India, Australin and Chinn. Merenntile Bank of India, Lol.
International
Banking Corporation.
1 Fan
(enn-
dureen)
Acoirdupois.
=0133 oz.
17'sin =083
(muce)
1 Leung (thel)
1 Kan
(calty)
1 Tâm
(pient)
=
It
= 1383
39
Amount of Deposits
in the
Colony.
I
Ordinance No. 2 of 1866.
20
112,322,143) No
million dollar-.
informa-
tion.
1
British GovI.
£3,000,000 21,763,985
Charter of
29-12-73.
1
£1,050,000 2,131,162
1
Established
G. $3,000,000
under
authority of
State of
Connecticut
Seunte Re-
solution Jan-
Jury, 1901.
The P. and 0.
1
Incorporated in England
1920.
Banking Corpo- ration Limited.
Banque de l'Indo-Chine.
National City
Bank of New York.
£2,594,160
Frs. 129,000.ONU
Act of Con- C.S.$127 ENLOUD
gress of
1.S. A. dated
3rd June,
1864.
Yokohama
@Y. 100,000,000
Length.
Specie Bank.
Bank of Canton,
[
100% equal to [42
English inches,
divided into 10 7s'ün - Netherlands-India
Limited.
Bank of Taiwan.
1
Ordinare
$8,565,500
Y.15,000.00 0.55,000,000
and onch 7«ä» into
10 Fan.
Netherlands
Trading Society.
Banque Franco-
Commercial
Bank.
No. 9 of 1907.
(£4,584,000)
01.35,030,00%)
Frw. Be0w1,00U
I
Chinoise pour le
Commerce er lludustrie.
Bank of China.
Bank of En
2-
Asia, Lul.
Incorporated
The Chase Bank.
I
in U.S.A.
1930.
The Overscās- Chinese Banking Corporation, Luj.
and numerous vative Honga Joing some
portion of bank-
ing business,
• Kowloon Branch Office.
$25,000,000 $5,598,600
US$5,000 MIQU
$10,000,000
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