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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 23, 1937.
GENERAL POST OFFICE.
No. 290. With reference to Government Notification 109 dated 19th February, 1937, the date of the extension by air of the Pan American Airways Service from Hong Kong to Manila will be the 29th April, 1937, and letters for transmission by this service will be accepted at the rates quoted in the said notification.
E. I. WYNNE-JONES,
19th April, 1937.
Postmaster General.
ROYAL OBSERVATORY.
No. 291.-The public is requested not to call the Observatory by telephone when typhoon signals No. 5 to No. 10 are hoisted. The telephone is in constant use by Observatory officials at such times.
Typhoon signals are displayed at the following places :
The Royal Observatory.
The Signal Hill, Kowloon.
The Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co.
The Harbour Office.
H.M.S. Tamar.
Green Island.
Lai-chi-kok.
Lyeemun.
Gough Hill Police Station.
Star Ferry Wharves. (Notice boards).
General Post Office. (Notice board). Kowloon Tong.
The latest information available is broadcast by ZBW on 355 metres telephony at and 8 p.m. daily and at the 60th minute of each even hour when Hong Kong is definitely threatened.
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In addition a Typhoon Warning Service has been established for its subscribers by the Hong Kong Telephone Company which undertakes to furnish information regarding the hoisting, changing and lowering of local typhoon signals at a charge of $10 per annum in respect of each line advised.
20th April, 1937.
C. W. JEFFRIES,
Director.
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