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Within those portions of the City of Victoria and the Kowloon Peninsula (South of a line running from the junction of Nanking Street and Temple Street, Yau-ma-ti, to the boundary of Kowloon Marine Lot No. 40) not comprised in the above limits, with the exception hereafter mentioned:
From 4 p.m. on Wednesday, the 29th January, till 4 p.m. on Friday, the 31st January, and on Wednesday, the 5th February, from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m.
No cracker-firing will be permitted in lee House Street, Duddell Street, or in the lanes leading out of Duddell Street for a distance of 80 yards from Queen's Road.
Cracker-firing is to be strictly confined to the times named above, both within and without the prescribed area; and both sides of all streets, or parts of streets named as the boundaries above, are to be considered as within the prescribed area.
No burning crackers or other fire is to be thrown above the head or near any person or inflammable material, and all reasonable precaution must be taken against accident, as every one is liable for damage arising from his carelessness.
The firing of crackers is not to be carried on in the vicinity of places of Christian Worship during Divine Service.
Attention is drawn to Government Notification No. 298 of the 8th July, 1921. No person shall make, sell, or have in his possession any fireworks which explode by detona- tion, or which contain any explosive ingredient or mixture other than black gunpowder, charcoal, sulphur and saltpetre,
No firework may be discharged within the following area :-
All that area within and bounded by a line along the whole of Ko Shing Street to its western end or junction with Des Voeux Road West, thence along Des Voeux Road West to its junction with Centre Street, thence along Centre Street to its junction with Bonham Road, thence along and including Bonham Road to a point found by producing the eastern boundary of Pound Laue, then to and along and including Pound Lane, thence along and including Hollywood Road to its junction with Queen's Road West thence along Queen's Road West to its junction with Queen's Street, thence along Queen's Street to its junction with Ko Shing Street, the Point of Commencement. The course of the said line is such that boundary streets. and roads not specifically included in the area lie outside it.
The Police have strict orders to summon or arrest persons firing crackers in contra- ́ vention of the foregoing restrictions.
The firing of Bombs, “Electric” crackers and
* Golden Coin crackers
is strictly prohibited.
3rd January, 1930.
E. D. C. WOLFE,
Inspector General of Police.
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