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NOTICES.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

No. S. 126.-Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted against Hongkong.

Place or Port.

Nature of Measures.

All passengers from Hongkong to produce special certificate.

Philippine Islands.

Newchwang. All vessels arriving from Hongkong will be treated as

Suspected Vessels.

Singapore.

Bengal.

Netherlands

India.

Hongkong declared an infected port on account of plague.

Regulations for the prevention of the introduction of plague by sea enforced in the ports of Orissa against vessels arriving from Hongkong.

Hongkong declared an infected port on account of plague. Importation of the following articles from Hongkong or transshipped at this port is temporarily prohibited :- (1) wearing apparel, old and worn clothes, household effects for daily use, and used bedding, unless these goods are transported as personal luggage or in consequence of removal; (2) rags. (Refuse of new goods coming direct from the weaving-mills, from workshops where apparel is made, or from bleaching-establishments, artificial wool, and cuttings of newspaper, are not considered as rags.)

Quarantine up to 21 days according to the state of health on board the ships but subject to exemption on production of certificates legalised by the Netherlands Cousul- General at Hongkong.

Date.

Reference to Govern- ment Noti- fication.

7th March, 1918. No. S. 49.

27th May, 1919.

No. S. 86.

19th July, 1918.

24th June, 1918.

No. S. 181..

No. S. 192.

10th Feb., 1920.

No. S. 38.

No. S. 127. Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted by Hongkong.

Disease.

Port or Place.

Restrictions in Force.

Cholera.

Bangkok.

Medical examination; quarantine at the discre-

tion of the Health Officer.

Authority.

Notification No. 194 of 26th April, 1919.

No. S. 128.—It is hereby notified that the Government intends to offer for sale by public auction, on or about the 1st November next, the whole of the area of Crown land at the corner of Pedder Street and Queen's Road Central, formerly occupied by the Post Office, Supreme Court and other Government Buildings, as delineated upon a plan which may be seen in the Public Works Office. The entire area available for sale amounts to about 36,500 square feet. The Government is prepared to consider proposals from intending purchasers for subdividing the entire area into lots of moderate size.

Subject to certain reservations as to the manner in which any building to be erected on the area may be occupied, the Government is prepared to sanction the erection of buildings not exceeding a height of 125 feet.

The term of the lease for any portion of the area will be 75 years, commencing from the date of sale, with the option of renewal at a Crown rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King for one further term of 75 years. The Crown rent for the entire area for the first period of 75 years will be $4,200 per annum. In the event of the area