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Chapter 4

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES

The weights and measures in use in the Colony consist of the standards in use in the United Kingdom and of the following Chinese weights and measures:-

1 fan (candareen)

.0133 ounces avoirdupois

1 ts'in (mace)

.133

ounces avoirdupois

1 leung (tael)

1.33

ounces avoirdupois

1 kan (catty)

1.33

pounds avoirdupois

1 tam (picul)

133.33

pounds avoirdupois

1 ch'ek (foot)

Statutory equivalent 14

inches. The ch'ek is divided into 10 ts'un (inches) and each ts'un into ten fan or tenths.

In practice the equivalent length of a to the trade in which it is used from 14 the commonest equivalent being 14.14

ch'ek varies according inches to 11 inches, inches.

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