Average Rate of Exchange with London
during the
(R1)
CURRENCY, BANKING, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES.
List of coins
current with rela-
tivo value.
Legal tender currency giving particulars and Legislative Authority,
Estimated A monut of Coin in Circulation,
Estimated Amount of paper money in Circulation.
Colonial Government.
Private
Bunks.
past year.
Demand.
d.
Subsidiary coin:
23
$
Proclamation No. 1. by the Governor of Hong Kong dated 9th January, 1937.
Silver.
50 cents.
20 10
5
Up to $2.
*
1
Copper or Mixed
Metal,
One ceni.
Cupro Nickel,
No estimate.
Previously
Up to $1.
Do.
Issued since 1923 $440,347
no estimate.
Up to $2.
Do,
$210,000
6,143,000
225,600,579
Que Dollar | Nores issued Currency by Hongkong notes issued and Shanghai by the Trea- Banking
Corporation,
surer,
Legal tender Chartered to any amount Bank of India, under Ordiu- Australia niu. ance No. 42,Chinn,
of 1935.
Mercantile Bank of India, Limited.
Legal tender
to any amount under Ordin- anco No. 5 of 1935.
10 cents.
5 +
Lure Nickel.
10 cents.
5 cents.
A dollar contains
Up to $2. Proclamation No. 10 by the Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong dated 7th October, 1937.
100 cents.
$2,687,500
Currency in which Accounts
are kept.
By By the
Weighis stal Measures in com mon use, amd their equivalents in Imperial Weights and Measures.
Govt, Public.
Dollars Dollars
and
aml
Cuts, cents.
BRITISH.
The Imperial Weights
and Measures,
1 Fan
CHINEST.
Weights.
(can- duteen)
1 T'sin
(maec)
\ Leung
(tnel) 1 Kan
(ently)
(picul)
Avoirdupois. =-0133 oz.
=0-183
=
N
"
138 »
Length.
1 Ch'ek equal to 14ĝ English inches, divided into 10 7s'ün and cuth 7s'ün iuto
10 Fan.
Particulars of all Banks doing business in the Colony,
Name of Bank.
Hongkong an Shanghai Bauking. Corporation,
Chartered Bank
Nun ber of
Estellamente
*Kupaya ut
Under what authority established,
Capital paid up.
Note Circulation
in the Colony.
Amount of
Deposits
in the Colony,
$ 195,232,228 No
2*
Ordinance
No. 2 of 1866.
20 million dollars.
informa- tion.
1
British Govt.
£3,000,000) 25,524,624|
| of India, Australia and China.
Charter of 29-12-33.
Merenatile Bank of India, Lul.
1
Banque Belge pour l'Etranger, (Extreme-Orient).
S.A.
Banque da Flado-Chine.
Bank of New York.
Yokohama Specie Bank,
Bank of Canton, Limited.
gress of U.S.A. datel
3rd June,
1861.
£1,050,000 4,843,727)
Belgian Frs.
$30,000,000]
Fix 120,000,000|
Y.100,000,000)
$7,162,650
Y.15,000,000) G.33,000,000|
Bank of Taiwan, Netherlands-India
1
Ordinance
Commercial Bank.
No, 9 of
1907.
G.40,030,000
Netherlands Trading Society.
1
Bank of China. Bank of East
Asis, Lud.
2*
$10,000,000 85,598,600)|
Incorporated
The Chase Bunk.
1
in U.S.A.
U.S.$5,000,000)
1930.
Tue Over-e 3-
1
$10,000,000
| Corporation, Lul.
Chinese Banking
Ku Bumerous nativo fongs doing some
portion of bank-
ing business,
* Kuw Boozt Branch Office,
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