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CURRENCY, BANKING, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES.

Average Rate of Exchange with London

during the

List of coins current with rela.

tive value.

past year.

Demand.

Legal tender currency giving particulars and Legislative Authority.

Estimated Amount of Coin in Circulation.

Estimated Amount of paper money in Ciroulation.

Private Banks.

$

Colonial Government.

4.

d.

Subsidiary coin :

Proclamation No. 1 by the

1

Governor of Hong Kong dated Stli January, 1937.

Silver.

50 cents, 20

Up to $2.

H

No estimate.

Copper or Mixed

Metal.

One cont.

Up to $1.

Do.

Isane since 1923 $484,133

Previously

no estimunto.

Cupro Nickel. 10 cents.

Up to $2.

Do.

$192,000

5

וד

Pure Nichel,

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 conts.

$3,309,000

6,699,000

One Dollar Currency

280,273,159

Notes issued

by Hongkong

notes issued mal Shanghai by the Trea- Banking

Corporation,

yurer,

Legal tender Chartered Lo any sumount Bank of India, Ender Onlin- Australia and Tanco No. 42 China,

of 1935.

Mercantile 'Bank of Indu, Limited.

Legul tonder

to any amount under Ordin- auce No. 54 of 1935.

Currency in which Accounts

are kept.

By the

By

Govt. Public..

Weights and Measures in com-

mon use, and their equivalents in Imperial Weights and Measures

Name of Bank,

Dollars Dollars:

and and

cents. cents.

BRITISH.

The Imperial Weights,

and Measures.

1 Fan

CHINESE.

W'eights.

(CAD- dareen)

1 T'ain

(mace)

1 Leung (tel)

Avoirdupois.

=10133 oz.

=0133

=

"

1 Кал =

(CALLY)

1 Täm

(pienl)

Particulars of all Banks doing business in the Colony.

Wanber of

Lstablishments

In The Colony.

Coder what authority established.

Note Cimulation

Capital paid up.

Amount of Deposits

in the Colony.

in the Colony.

8

Ordinance No. 2 of 1866.

20 million dollars.

200.257.228 No

informa-

tion.

1

British Govt.

£3.000.000 25.640,528

Charter of 29-12-1853.

Mercantile Bank

1

£1,050,000 4,375.403

of Indin, Led.

Hongkong and 2* Shangbai Banking Corporation.

Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China.

Banque Belge pour l'Etranger,

1

Belgian Frs,

$30.000,000:

(Extreme-Orient) |

S.A.

133}

n

Banque de l'Indo-Chine.

National City

I

Bank of

Frs. 120,0011,000|

Act of Con- U.S.$77.500.000|

greas of U.S.A. dute:]

3rd June,

Length.

I Ch'ek equal to 148 English inches, divided into 10 7's'ün and each Tr'ün into

10 Fan.

New York.

Yokohamna Specie Rauk.

Bank of Canton, Limited.

Bank of Taiwan,

Netherlands-India

Commercial Bunk.

Netherlands

Trading Society.

Bank of Chios.

1

1864.

I

Y.100,000,000

1

1

Ordinance

$7,798,890

Y.15,000,000 F.33,000,000,

No. 9 of 1907.

G.40,030,000

i

Bank of East

Asia, Ltd.

2.

$40,000,000 $3,598,600

!

Lucorporated

The Chase Bank.

I

in U.S. A.

S.$7,000,000

1930.

1

$10,000,000

The Overseas- Chinese Banking Corporation, Ltd.

and numerous native Ilongs doing some portion of bank-

ing business.

• Kowloon Branch Office.

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