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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 6, 1930.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

Hong Kong.

No. 338.

Regulation made by the Governor in Council under sections 25 (4) and 33 (2) of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, Ordinance No. 10 of 1899, on the 30th day of May, 1930.

Table M in the Schedule to the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, is hereby further amended as follows:-

(1) For the heading "(V)-Telegraph Cable Grounds," substitute "(V)-Tele-

graph cables and other protected apparatus."

(2) For regulation 18A substitute,--

18A.--(1) A cable ground is established between the City of Victoria and the south end of the Kowloon Peninsula within the following bounda- ries:-

Western boundary.--A line drawn from the red light on the Tsim Sha Tsui wharf (immediately to the north of the Hong Kong Ferry Pier at Kowloon Point) 2283° to the red light on the pier at the end of Queen Victoria Street.

Southern boundary.-The foreshore.

Eastern boundary.-A line drawn from the south-west corner of Holt's Godown (Kowloon) 224° to the Cenotaph (Victoria).

Northern boundary. --The foreshore.

These boundaries are marked by fixed red lights.

(2) The protection afforded by the said cable ground extends to the Harbour pipe line for conveyance of water from Kowloon to the Island of Hong Kong, which lies on the harbour bed between the sign boards erected. on the sea front of Kowloon Point, in the line of Nathan Road produced to the sea wall, and Queen's Pier (Victoria).

(3) Ships going alongside Douglas Pier are permitted to drop their anchor in the fore and aft line of this pier, provided that such anchor is not dropped more than 200 feet from the end of the said pier.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

30th May, 1930.

D. W. TRATMAN,

Clerk of Councils.