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9. Licensed Warehouses:- Ten additional Warehouses were licensed during the year, viz.:-
Nam Hing Loong, No. 99, Queen's Road Central.
A. S. Watson & Co., Ld., 1, Stanley Street.
MacEwen, Frickel & Co., 17 4, Des Voeux Road Central.
Sang Tai, 112, Queen's Road Central.
I Wo Tseung, 248, Des Voeux Road West.
Garner, Quelch & Co., 16A, Des Voeux Road Central.
Siemssen & Co., 27
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51, Kowloon Godown, Kowloon.
15 110, Queen's Road Central.
F. Blackhead & Co., 19, Kowloon Godown, Kowloon.
Cheong Tai, 12, Possession Street.
*Cheong Hing,
One licence, that held by the Connaught Aërated Water Co., was not renewed. Thus the total number of licences at the end of 1910 was 27.
An additional regulation was passed during the year compelling all Licensed Warehouses to be fitted with a Government lock in addition to private fastenings. This measure ensures the closing of all Warehouses except between the hours of 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. and on all Sundays and holidays unless special notice is given. In such a case a special watch is placed on the Warehouse and a fee not exceeding $3 per hour charged.
It is not, however, possible without a large and costly increase in the European Preventive Staff to arrange that the Warehouses, dispersed as they are now, shall not be open at any time except under the immediate supervision of a Revenue Officer.
As a further safeguard to the Revenue all licensees are now required to enter into a bond for the proper conduct of their Warehouses.
10. Reducing and Blending in Licensed Warehouses:- A regulation was made in 1910 to ensure that all increases in the bulk of the liquor treated in these operations due to the addition of water or other non-dutiable liquors shall be liable to duty and shall be properly accounted for.
11. New Territories:- It was found necessary to cancel the regulation allowing the importation of Chinese Spirits from China at certain frontier crossings. All importation by land is now forbidden unless written notice is given to the District Officer, Tai Po.
The general statistics of the Liquor Trade for the year will be found in Table I.
12. Legislation:- The law relating to Liquor Duties was amended twice in 1910.
(a) By Ordinance No. 2.- Withdrawing the exemption from payment of duty granted to Government House by Ordinance 30 of 1909.
(b) By Ordinance No. 16.- Including the Officers' Mess at the Royal Naval Hospital and the Engineers' Mess in H. M. Dockyard among those entitled to a rebate of duty.
* Licence subsequently cancelled on conviction of licensee for importing Spirits of Wine under a false declaration.
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9. Licensed Warehouses:-Ten additional Warehouses were licensed during the year, viz.:-
Nam Hing Loong,
A. S. Watson & Co., Ld., MacEwen, Frickel & Co., Sang Tai,..
I Wo Tseung,
Garner, Quelch & Co.,...... Siemssen & Co.,
No. 99, Queen's Road Central.
1, Stanley Street.
17
4, Des Voeux Road Central. 112, Queen's Road Central. 248, Des Voeux Road West.
16A, Des Voeux Road Central.
27
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51, Kowloon Godown, Kowloon.
15
110, Queen's Road Central.
F. Blackhead & Co.,
Cheong Tai,
*Cheong Hing,
19, Kowloon Godown, Kowloon. 12, Possession Street.
One licence, that held by the Connaught Aërated Water Co., was not renewed. Thus the total number of licences at the end of 1910 was 27..
An additional regulation was passed during the year com- pelling all Licensed Warehouses to be fitted with a Government lock in addition to private fastenings. This measure ensures the closing of all Warehouses except between the hours of 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. and on all Sundays and holidays unless special notice is given. In such a case a special watch is placed on the Warehouse and a fee not exceeding $3 per hour charged.
It is not, however, possible without a large and costly increase in the European Preventive Staff to arrange that the Warehouses, dispersed as they are now, shall not be open at any time except under the immediate supervision of a Revenue Officer.
As a further safeguard to the Revenue all licensees are now re- quired to enter into a bond for the proper conduct of their Ware- houses.
10. Reducing and Blending in Licensed Warehouses:-A re- gulation was made in 1910 to ensure that all increases in the bulk of the liquor treated in these operations due to the addition of water or other non-dutiable liquors shall be liable to duty and shall be properly accounted for.
C11. New Territories:-It was found necessary to cancel the regulation allowing the importation of Chinese Spirits from China. at certain frontier crossings. All importation by land is now for- bidden unless written notice is given to the District Officer, Tai Po.)
The general statistics of the Liquor Trade for the year will be found in Table I.
12. Legislation:-The law relating to Liquor Duties was amended twice in 1910.
(a) By Ordinance No. 2.-Withdrawing the exemption from payment of duty granted to Government House by Ordinance 30 of 1909.
(b.) By Ordinance No. 16.-Including the Officers' Mess at the Royal Naval Hospital and the Engineers' Mess in H. M. Dockyard among those entitled to a rebate of duty.
* Licence subsequently cancelled on conviction of licensee for importing
Spirits of Wine under a false declaration.
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