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Pagel

No. S. 41.

NOTICES TO MARINERS.

HONGKONG Harbour.

For the purpose of taking observations of the currents in the Harbour on the 20th, 21st and 22nd February and 1st, 2nd and 3rd March, two boats during daylight flying a red flag on a mast about 15 feet high will be moored in the following positions

berth.

Chinsalchui Point Police Station Flag Staff bearing N. 28° E. Mag. distant 1-8

cables.

Blackhead Point Flag Staff bearing N. 21° W. Mag. distant I cable.

Vessels passing in the vicinity are warned to go slow and give the said boats a wide

C. W. BECKWITH, Commander, R.N.,

Harbour Master, &c.

HONGKONG, 15th February, 1911.

HARBOUR NOTIFICATION,

No. 1 of 1911.

QUARANTINE DECLARED AGAINST MANCHURIAN PORTS, INCLUDING DAIREN, AND CHEFO0.

Wrrn the concurrence of the Superintendent of Customs and the Foreign Consuls I hereby notify that until further notice quarantine for plague is to be enforced on all vessels arriving from the ports of Manchuria including Dairen, and Chefoo.

Any such vessel, whether or not there be a case of plague on board when she arrives, must on arrival, hoist the Yellow or Quarantine flag (Letter Q in the International Code of signals) and come to anchor in the Quarantine ground, and be subject to the Inspection and orders of the Customs Medical Officer, but in all other respects be bound by the Provisional Sanitary Regulations for Foreign-Rigged Vessels at the port of Swatow.

J. C. A. HOLZ,

Harbour Master.

Approved:

EDWARD GILCHRIST,

Commissioner of Customs.

CUSTOM HOUSE, SWATOW, 28th January, 1911.

HARBOUR NOTIFICATION.

No. 4 of 1911.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Superintendent of Customs and the Consular Body have agreed to an additional Sanitary measure to the effect that all vessels arriving outside Woosung from a Plague-infected P'ort shall anchor in the Quarantine Anchorage south-west of Chung Pao Sha, where all such vessels will be detained for observation by the Port Health Officer for any unexpired part of seven days from the date of their departure from a Plague- infected Port, instead of six days as provided for in Harbour Notification No. 3 of 1911.

All vessels so detained shall strictly observe paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of the General Regu- lations of the Sanitary Regulations for the Ports of Shanghai and Woosung.

Approved :

H. F. MERRILL,

Commissioner of Customs.

CUSTOM HOUSE, SHANGHAI, 8th February, 1911.

WM. CARLSON,

Harbour Master.