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Objects and Reasons.

1. This Bill is introduced under instructions received from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies.

2. The Tables contained in the Schedule to the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Ordinance, 1998, are all worked out on the 6% basis, 4.6., on the assumption that the contributions are earning interest at the rate of 6%, New Tables have been approved, which assume a rate of 8% and these new Tables are substituted for the present Tables in Schedule A to the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Ordi- nance, 1908, by section 3 and the Schedule to this Ordinance.

3. Section 2 of this Ordinance provides that all future pensions shall be calculated on the basis of the new Tables and that all existing pensions shall be recalculated on that basis. This will mean a certain increase in existing pensions and in the calculation of future pensious, but the increase will not be so great as might be imagined because a temporary increase of 25% has been made during recent years.

June, 1928.

NOTICES.

H. E. POLLOCK,

Attorney General.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

No. S. 206.--Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted against Hong Kong.

Place or Port.

Manila.

Nature of Measures.

Date.

Reference to Government Notification.

All ports in the United States of America, including the Hawaiian Is- lands.

Bangkok.

Netherlands

East Indies.

Inspections outside Manila harbour from 20th April. Third class passengers and new crew must comply with the vaccination requirements.

Inspections outside the ports from 1st April. Steerage passengers must comply with the vaccination require- inents. Cabin passengers must produce a vaccina- tion certificate or be vaccinated by ships doctor or quarantine authorities.

Vessels detained at river mouth and passengers and crew vaccinated unless they can produce evidence of successful recent vaccination.

Hong Kong declared an infected port on account of

plague.

16th April, 1924.

30th April, 1926.

29th October, 1926.

No. S. 301.

11th May,

1928.

No. S. 145.