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NOTICES.
COLONIAL SE TAL'S DEPARTMENT.
+MAAwADAAMAAwAA-No. S. 1.-Returns of the Average Amount of BANK NOTES in Circulation and of Specie in Reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 31st December, 1911, as certified by the Managers of the respective Banks :-
BANKS.
AVERAGE
SPECIE
AMOUNT. IN RESERVE.
+ACQ-
+ACQ-
Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China,
6,024,987
4,000,000
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,
21,707,242
12,500,000
TOTAL,
27,732,229
16,500,000
No. S. 2.-Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted by Hongkong.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUALY 5, 1912.
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.
1
No. 1.
Amendment of Regulations under the Private Vehicles Ordin- ance, 1895, (Ordinance No. 5 of 1895), as amended by Ordinance No. 25 of 1911), published in the Gazette on the 4th day of May, 1906, and on page 159 of the Regulations of Hongkong, 1910, as amended by the Regulations published in the Gazette by virtue of Government Notification No. 106 on the 25th day of April, 1911, made by the Governor-in-Council on the 3rd day of January, 1912.
Regulation No. 3 as published on page 159 of the Regulations of Hongkong, 1910, and as amended by Regulation No. 1 published by Government Notification No. 106 in the Gazette of the 25th April, 1911, is hereby repealed and there shall be substituted therefor the following regulation:-
"3. The fee for a truck or trolly licence shall be $10 per annum.
The fee for
the licence of a motor car licensed under Ordinance No. 5 of 1895 which The fee for the is intended or used for hire shall be $20 per mensem.
The fee for all licence of any other motor car shall be $24 per annum. other private vehicle licences shall be $2 per annum."
R. H. CROFTON,
Clerk of Councils.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
3rd January, 1912.
NOTICES.
OBSERVATORY.
ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1912
Table of Contents
1 Finances
2 Trade and Shipping, industries, Fisheries, agriculture and Land
3 Legislation
4 Education
5 Public Works
6 Government and aided institutions
7 Institutions Not Supported By Government
8 Criminal and Police
9 Vital Statistics
10 Postal Service
11 General Observations
A Financial Returns
A(1) Finances
B Assessment
C Registrar General's Department
D Harbour office
E Observatory
F Supreme Court
G Police Magistrates' Court
H Land office
I New Territories
J Police and Fire Brigade
K Prison
L Medical and Sanitary
M Botanical and forestry
N Education
O Volunteer Corps (Not Published)
P Public Works
Q Post office
R Railway
PAPERS LAID BEFORE THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG 1912
Table of Contents
1. Estimates for 1913
Financial Statements in Connection With the
2. Estimates of Expenditure
Abstract Showing Differences Between the Estimates for 1912 and 1913
3. Financial Minute No. 25 of 1912
Details of
4. Flushing Tanks and Iron Pipes
Report of the Public Works Committee on
5. Full Court Bill, 1912
Report of the Standing Law Committee on the
6. Jubilee Fountains
Report of the Public Works Committee on the
7. Jurors
List of, for 1912
8. Kowloon-Canton Railway
Estimate of Expenditure on Capital account During the Year 1912
9. Kowloon Market
Report of the Public Works Committee on the
10. Mong-Kok-Tsui Breakwater
Diagram Showing Progress of Stone Depositing to 30th June, 1912
11. Mong-Kok-Tsui Breakwater
Diagram Showing Progress of Stone Depositing to 31st December, 1911
12. New Territories
Report on the, for the Years 1899-1912
13. Post office Buildings
Report of the Committee appointed to Enquire into the Expenditure and Delay in Constructing the
14. Post office Buildings
Explanatory Statement of increase in Cost
15. Public House Trust
Report of the Committee appointed to Consider the Feasibility of forming a
16. Public Works Extraordinary 1913 Estimates
Report of the Public Works Committee on the
17. Quarterly Return of Excesses on Subheads Met By Savings Under Heads of Expenditure
For 1st and 2nd Quarters of 1912
18. Quarterly Return of Excesses on Subheads Met By Savings Under Heads of Expenditure
For 3rd Quarter
19. Quarterly Return of Excesses on Subheads Met By Savings Under Heads of Expenditure
For 4th Quarter
20. Typhoon Refuge
Statement of Progress to 30th June, 1912
21. Typhoon Refuge
Statement of Progress to 31st December, 1911
Confidential.
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341
1912
P 340
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The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
presents his compliments to the
Under. Secretary of state
for India
1
and is directed by the Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs to transmit the accompanying sections of
printed confidential correspondence.
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