SUPPLEMENT NO. 2 .
TO THE
HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
Published by Authority
#1 F 10 Gazette No. 10]
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1949.
[VOL. XCI
Na, A. 28.
PROCLAMATION.
A. G. GRANTHAM, Governor.
No. 1.
L.S.
BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, er Boclamalin
WHEREAS by Article 2 of the Hong Kong (Coinage) Order, 1936, it
No.1 1937 provided among other things that the Governor may with the approval the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury and a Secretary of State at any time declare by Proclamation that all or any of the coins referred in the Schedule to the said Order shall, subject to a special provision in e case of British dollars, cease to be legal tender as from a date to be ified in the Proclamation and that such coins shall accordingly cease to ** legal tender as from such date:
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NOW THEREFORE I, SIR ALEXANDER WILLIAM GEORGE HERDER GEASTHAM, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Mhael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony Hong Kong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same, in errise of the powers conferred upon me by the said Article with the *proval of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury and of the Secretary 4 State for the Colonies do hereby PROCLAIM AND DECLARE that the nickel ten cent and five cent pieces of the respective standard weights *40 and 40 grains proclaimed to be legal tender on the 7th day of October, shall cease to be legal tender as from the first day of June, 1949. fiven under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Victoria, Hg Kong, this 7th day of February, 1949.
Published by His Excellency's Command.
D. M. MACDOUGALL,
Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE KING.