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NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. S. 128. Returns of the Average Amount of BANK NOTES in Circulation and of Specie in Reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 30th June, 1916, as certified by the Managers of the respective Banks :-
BANKS.
AVERAGE
SPECIE
AMOUNT. IN RESERVE.
Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China,
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,
Mercantile Bank of India, Limited,
$
7,831,764
$
5,000,000*
24,815,300 20,000,000
1,073,770
550,000†
TOTAL,.
33,720,834
25,550,000
*
Sterling Securities deposited with the Crown Agents valued at £150,000. † Securities with the Crown Agents £68,040.
No. S. 129. The following statement of the securities lodged with the Crown Agents by the Mercantile Bank of India, Limited, against their notes in circulation, is published for general information under Section 5 of the Mercantile Bank Note Issue Ordinance, 1911, (Ordinance No. 65 of 1911) :-
Security.
Amount.
Nominal Value.
Price when deposited.
Latest market price.
Bombay Port Trust 4 % Bonds..........
£10,000
£100
97/98
761
Southern Punjab Railway 4%
Preference Stock,
£23,040
£100
92/94
86
Madras and Southern Maharatta
4% Debenture Stock,.................
£35,000
£100
98/100
3383
93
No. S., 130.-Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted against Hongkong.
Place or Port.
Netherlands- India.
Siam.
Burmah.
Nature of Measures.
Reference
Date.
to Govern- ment Noti-
fication.
Hongkong declared an infected port. Importation of the 29th April, 1916. | No. S. 78.
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 newspaper, 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.
Hongkong declared a suspected port on account of Small-pox.
All vessels must call at Kobphra to be examined.
Hongkong declared a Plague-infected port.
11th May, 1916.
No. S. 92.
15th May, 1916.
No. S. 93.
7th July, 1916.
CLAUD SEVERN,
Colonial Secretary.
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