53542-1917-Supplementary-Bank-Notes-Circulation-December-1916 — Page 1

NOTICES.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S Department.

No. S. 1.-Returns of the Average Amount of BANK NOTES in Circulation and of Specie in Reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 31st December, 1916, as certified by the Managers of the respective Banks:-

BANKS.

AVERAGE AMOUNT.

SPECIE IN RESERVE.

$

$

Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China,

7,765,117

5,000,000*

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation;

Mercantile Bank of India, Limited,

25,025,355

20,000,000

950,577

$550,000†

TOTAL......

S 33,741,049 25,550,000

* Sterling Securities deposited with the Crown Agents valued at £150,000.

† Securities with the Crown Agents £70,000.

No. S. 2. 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.

41% War Loan,

Amount.

£70,000

Nominal Value.

Price when deposited.

Latest market price.

No. S. 3.-Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted against Hongkong.

Place of Port.

Nature of Measures.

Date.

Reference to Govern- ment Ncti-"

fication.

Dairen.

Quarantine restrictions against all ships arriving at Dairen or Port Arthur from or by way of Canton and all other South-China ports.

Bangkok. Hongkong declared a suspected port on account of small-pox. All vessels leaving Hongkong for Bangkok after 13th December, 1916, should call at Kohphra to be examined.

31st August, 1916. No. S. 194

13th December, No. S. 302.

1916.

No. S. 4.-Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted by Hongkong.

Disease.

Cholera.

Port or Place.

Restrictions in Force.

Manila.

Medical examination; quarantine at the discre-

tion of the Health Officer.

Authority.

Notification No. 385 of 1st September, 1916.

5th January, 1917.

CLAUD SEVERN,

Colonial Secretary.