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Directories & Chronicles 香港指南 All

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FARES FOR CHAIRS AND OTHER VEHICLES.

LEGALISED TARIFF OF FARES FOR CHAIRS, CHAIR BEARERS, AND BOATS IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG.

Half hour..... Hour

Day (from 6 to 6)

Chairs and Ordinary Pullaway Boats.

Beyond Victoria and back........ To Stanley and back............

10 cents.

20

Three hours........... Six hours..

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Chair Hire to Out Districts. *

50 cents. .70

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One Dollar.

50 cents per man. .60 >>

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Victoria lies below the level of Robinson Road, and includes all the town between the Mint and the Western Slaughter House, with the Race-course.

Hour

Half day. Day.

Licensed Bearers (each).

BOAT AND COOLE HIRE.

Boats.

1st Class Cargo Boat of 800 or 900 piculs, per day 1st Class Cargo Boat of 800 or 900 piculs, per load 2nd Class Cargo Boat of 600 piculs, per day. 2nd Class Cargo Boat of 600 piculs, per load.

3rd Class Cargo Boat, or Ha-kau Boat of 300 piculs, per day 3rd Class Cargo Boat, or Ha-kau Boat of 300 piculs, per load. 3rd Class Cargo Boat, or Ho-kau Boat of 300 picule, half-day.

Or Pullaway Boat, per day.

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After 6 P.M....

one hour.. half-an-hour

Sampans.

Nothing in this Scale prevents private agreements.

.10 cents.

35

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.50

$3.00.

2.00.

2.50.

1.75.

1.50.

1.00.

50.

.$1.00.

20.

10.

10 cents extra.

STREET COOLIES. Scale of Hire for Street Coolies.

One day.. Half day.

Three hours..

.10

822

33 cents.

20

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One hour..

5

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Half hour...

3

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Nothing in the above Scale is to affect private agreements.

* Persons who make short excursions out of the town should understand that they are quite at liberty to pay by the hour if they prefer to do so.

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