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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 8, 1938.
SUPREME COURT.
No. 278. The offices of the Supreme Court will be open daily from 10 a.m. to I p.m. during the Easter Vacation, except on public and general holidays, when the offices will be entirely closed. The Easter Vacation begins on the 15th day of April, 1938 and terminates on the 21st day of April, 1938, (both days inclusive).
E. P. H. LANG, Registrar.
6th April, 1938.
HARBOUR DEPARTMENT.
No. 279.-The following is published for general information :-
The number of Emigrants leaving the Colony for the Straits Settlements
during the month of March, 1938, was 15,297.
4th April, 1938.
G. F. HOLE,
Harbour Master, &c.
ROYAL OBSERVATORY.
No. 280.-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 Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock 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 and by ZBW 3 on 31.49 metres telephony at 1 p.m. and 8 p.m. daily and at the 60th minute of any hour when Hong Kong is threatened.
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.
C. W. JEFFRIES,
Director.
4th April, 1938.
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