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in bronze are also legal tender up to the value of two dollars for silver and one dollar for bronze. Bank notes issued by The Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank, The Chartered Bank and The Mercantile Bank are also in circulation, the estimated amount issued at the end of 1934 being $153,601,407. These Bank notes are redeemable in legal tender dollars at the Banks' Offices in Hong Kong, and include fiduciary issues amounting to $12,000,000, the balance being covered in various proportions for the respective banks by silver coin of approved denominations, by bullion, and by securities.
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) = 14⅜ 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 160 officers and the non-European approximately 623.
3. The following is a summary of works carried out during the year:-
BUILDINGS.
4. Works completed were:- New Markets at Bowrington Canal and Arsenal Street; temporary Barrack Sheds for Police on Caine Road; new Quarters for Wireless Operators at the Peak Wireless Station; fire Appliance Sheds at Aberdeen and Aplichau; new Stores for the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps; new
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in bronze are also legal tender up to the value of two dollars for silver and one dollar for bronze. Bank notes issued by The Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank, The Chartered Bank and The Mercantile Bank are also in circulation, the estimated amount issued at the end of 1934 being $153,601,407. These Bank notes are redeemable in legal tender dollars at the Banks' Offices in Hong Kong, and include fiduciary issues amounting to $12,000,000, the balance being covered in various proportions for the respective banks by silver coin of approved denominations, by bullion, and by securities.
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 :
and
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 check (foot)=14§ 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 160 officers and the non- European approximately 623.
3. The following is a summary of works carried out during the year:-
BUILDINGS.
4. Works completed were:-New Markets at Bowrington Canal and Arsenal Street; temporary Barrack Sheds for Police on Caine Road; new Quarters for Wireless Operators at the Peak Wireless Station; fire Appliance Sheds at Aberdeen and Aplichau; new Stores for the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps; new
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