Hongkong Directory 1917

FOR ALL

INDUSTRIAL AN* IIOUSEHOLD

SEE INSIDE—PAGE XL.

 THOS. HARRISON & CO. ESTABLISHED 1S45

CONTRACTORS TO H.M. and FOREIGN GDVERNMENT3

anb ^Taefic 'g&anufaciurers

Also of Distilled Dehydrated Coal Tar for Roads as per Road Board Specification

IMPORTERS OP FOREIGN ASPHALTES AND BITUMEN

PROPRIETORS OF DAY’S EYAMEL FOR SHIPS, A.YD A.YTI-FOl’LIYG COMPOSITIONS

Office & Works:—CANAL BANK, BLACK HORSE BRIDGE,

DEPTFORD, LONDON, ENGLAND

REGISTERED.

HARRISON’S ASPHALTE

 

Government Gazette Supplementary | 政府憲報副刊 | 1917

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NOTICES.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

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, 1916, as certified by the Managers of the respective Banks :----

BANKS.

AVERAGE AMOUNT.

SPECIE IN RESERVE.

$

$

Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China,

7,765,117

5,000,000*

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation;

Mercantile Bank of India, Limited,

25,025,355

20,000,000

950,577

$550,000†

 

Government Gazette | 政府憲報 | 1917

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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 5, 1917.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

No. 1.

　　　Order made by the Governor in Council under Sub-section (2) of Section 3 of the Trading with the Enemy (Extension of Powers) Ordinance, 1916, (Ordinance No. 4 of 1916), on the 4th day of January, 1917.

　　　The list which was published in the Gazette of the 21st July, 1916, of persons and bodies of persons, incorporated or unincorporated, with whom trading is prohibited by the Trading with the Enemy (Statutory List) Proclamation, Hongkong, 1916, No. 3, and which was amended by the lists published in the Gazettes of the 4th, 18th and 25th August, the 1st, 15th and 22nd September, the 6th, 20th and 27th October, the 17th November, and the 8th, 22nd and 29th December, 1916, is hereby further amended by the variation and addition of the names set forth in the Schedule hereto :-

SCHEDULE.

Additions to List.

ARGENTINA AND URUGUAY.

Aachen & München Insurance Company, Calle Cangallo

319, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Agence Stigler, Montevideo, Uruguay. Arnold, H., Buenos Aires, Argentina. Barbagelata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Bernard Hermos, Calle Cangallo 315, Buenos Aires,

 

Administrative Reports - 1917

ADMINISTRATIVE REPORTS FOR THE YEAR 1917

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 and Telegraph Services

11 General Observations

A Financial Returns

A(1) Finances

B Assessment

C Secretariat for Chinese affairs

D Harbour office

E Imports and Exports office

F Royal Observatory

G Supreme Court

H Police Magistrates' Court

I Land office

J New Territories

K Police and Fire Brigade

L Prison

M Medical and Sanitary

N Botanical and forestry

O Education

P Volunteer Corps (Not Published)

Q Public Works

R Post office

S Railway

 

Sessional Papers - 1917

PAPERS laid before the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL of Hongkong 1917

Table of Contents

1. Active Service

List of Men Who Have Left Hongkong for

2. Commercial and industrial Policy

Correspondence Relating to the, to Be adopted Throughout the Empire after the War

3. Economic Conference of the allies Held at Paris on June 14/17, 1916

Recommendations of the

4. Estimates for 1918

Financial Statements in Connection With the

5. Estimates of Expenditure

Abstract Showing the Differences Between the, for 1917 and 1918

6. Government Schools, Teaching of English in

Report of a Committee appointed to Enquire into the

7. Imports and Exports Department

Report of the Public Works Committee on the Proposed Permanent offices for the

8. Jurors

List of, for 1917

9. Kowloon Railway Station

Report on Completion of Building

10. Military Service Commission

Correspondence Between the, and His Excellency the Governor

11. Nathan Road, Kowloon

Report of the Public Works Committee in Connection With the Petition for the Removal of a Hill to admit of the Extension of

12. Quarterly Return of Excesses on Subheads Met By Savings Under Heads of Expenditure

For 3rd Quarter of 1917

13. Quarterly Return of Excesses on Subheads Met By Savings Under Heads of Expenditure

For 1st Quarter of 1917

14. Quarterly Return of Excesses on Subheads Met By Savings Under Heads of Expenditure

For 2nd Quarter of 1917

15. Quarterly Return of Excesses on Sub-Heads Met By Savings Under Heads of Expenditure

For 4th Quarter of 1916

16. Queen's Road East

Scheme for Widening, Between arsenal Street and the Royal Naval Hospital

17. Railway Terminus, Kowloon Point

Report of the Public Works Committee on the Proposed Goods Shed at the

18. Rating (Special War Rate) Ordinance, 1917

Correspondence Relating to the

19. Searching of Passengers

Report on the

20. War, Third anniversary of the

Despatches on the

21. West River Relief Fund, 1914

Report and accounts