592565-1939-Errors-of-Time-signals--March — Page 1

THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 14, 1939.

No. 302.

ROYAL OBSERVATORY, HONG KONG.

Errors of Time-signals, March, 1939.

DATE.

ERROR.

DATE.

ERROR.

second.

IQM

1

0.00

17

2

+ 0.01

18..

second.

0.00 + 0.03

3

0.00

19.

0.00

4

0.00

20.

+ 0.03

5

+ 0.01

21

+ 0.02

6

0.00

22

+ 0.02

7

- 0.01

23

- 0.02

8

- 0.03

24

- 0.01

9

0.00

25

- 0.01

10

+ 0.02

26.

- 0.02

11

+ 0.02

27

- 0.03

12

+ 0.03

28

- 0.03

13

+ 0.03

29

+ 0.01

14

- 0.06

30

-1 0.01

15

- 0.03

31

+ 0.03

16

0.00

+

Late

=

12th April, 1939.

Early.

B. D. EVANS, Director.

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ROYAL OBSERVATORY.

No. 303. 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.

Lyeemuu.

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 siguals at a charge of $10 per annum in respect of each line advised.

12th April, 1939.

B. D. EVANS,

Director.