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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 10, 1926.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

No. 666.-His Excellency the Governor in Council has been pleased to order, under section 2 of the Rating (Refunds) Ordinance, 1926, Ordinance No. 3 of 1926, that refund of rates for the fourth quarter of the year 1926 be made in any case where, although a tenement has not been wholly vacant, two or more floors thereof have been vacant during the whole of any month in the said quarter: Such refund will not be of the whole of the rates attributable to such vacant floors but will be made having regard to the allowance in the assessment for partial vacancy: No refund of rates for the said quarter will be made in any case where such rates have not been paid in advance as required by the Rating Ordinance, 1901.

The public is warned that no concession can be claimed or expected in respect of any period after the fourth quarter of 1926.

No. 667.

Order made by the Governor in Council under section 34 of the Telephone Ordinance, 1925, Ordinance No. 9 of 1925, on the 9th day of December, 1926.

Whereas it appears in the Schedule to the Telephone Ordinance, 1925, that the annual rates to be paid by subscribers, with effect on and from the 1st day of July, 1925, for extension telephones, bells, switches, switchboards, power-circuits and other services of like nature, should be such rates as the Governor in Council might approve Now it is hereby ordered and declared that the following annual rates (payable quarterly in advance) are approved, that is to say,--

$1 per indicator on a private branch-exchange switchboard.

$81 per power-circuit to a private branch-exchange switchboard.

$6 per single switch.

$30 per internal extension.

$40 per external extension* of 50 yards.

$50

100

"

""

$60

200

""

""

""

$70

300

""

""

$80

""

""

ག

$90

"

""

$100

""

$140

15

97

$180

400

600

92

39

1 mile.

1.5 mile.

2 miles.

""

$200

2.5 miles.

22

$220

$240

""

$250

$6 per extension bell, small. $12 per extension bell, large. $12 per indicator and bell.

3 miles.

3.5 miles.

4 miles.

$12 per portable telephone for ship's use. $6 per watertight plug and socket.

* "External extension means a connection completed externally between a main exchange line telephone or private branch exchange and a point situated in another building from a main line instrument or private branch exchange; the term 'external extension' includes the internal wiring and lightning protector connecting to the external wiring at the main office, the external line (which may be cable or open wires or both) between the main and extension offices, also the lightning protector, internal wiring and extension telephone at the extension or sub-office end of the line.

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