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NOTICES.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

No. S. 252.----It is hereby notified that sealed tenders in duplicate, which should be clearly marked "Tender for the supply of Coal", will be received at this Office until Noon of Monday, the 22nd day of November, 1915, for the supply of Coal for the Govern- ment, excluding Government Launches, for the space of one year from the 1st January

next.

Best Japanese Steam Coal and Best Picked Japanese Household Coal, are, when required, to be delivered free of charge at the various Government Hospitals and all the Stations and Buildings under the control of the Director of Public Works including Tytam Tuk Pumping Station and all Government Buildings including those in the New Territo- ries.

No tender will be received unless the person tendering produces a receipt to the effect that he has deposited in the Colonial Treasury the sum of $200 as a pledge of the bonâ fides of his offer, which sum shall be forfeited to the Crown, if such person shall refuse to carry out his tender, should the tender be accepted.

For further information and forms of tender apply at this Office, and only these forms must be used.

The successful tenderer will be required to sign a formal contract containing condi- tions to be prescribed by the Government and to deposit as security the sum of $200 in the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in the name of the Colonial Treasurer: failing compliance with these requirements the sum deposited with the tender will be

forfeited.

The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender.

No. S. 253. Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted against Hongkong.

Place or Port.

Netherlands India.

Nature of Measures.

Hongkong declared an infected port. Importation of the following articles from Hongkong or transshipped at this port is temporarily prohibited :-(1) wearing apparel, old and worn clothes, household effects for daily use, and used bedding, unless these goods are transported as personal luggage or in consequence of removal. (2) rags. (Re- fuse of new goods coming direct from the weaving-mills, from workshops where apparel is made or from bleaching- establishments, artificial wool, and cuttings of new paper. are not considered as rags.)

Quarantine up to 21 days according to the state of health on board the ships but subject to exemption on production of certificates legalised by the Netherlands Consul- General at Hongkong.

29th October, 1915.

Date.

Reference to Govern- ment No-

fication.

14th May, 1915.

No. S. 112.

CLAUD SEVERN,

Colonial Secretary.

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