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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 25, 1916.
DESPATCHES FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
No. 363.
CIRCULAR.
DOWNING STREET,
13th July, 1916.
SIR, I have the honour to inform you that, the question having been raised whether British subjects ordinarily resident in Great Britain but at present living abroad should return to this country to enlist, the Army Council have requested that it may be made known as widely as possible that they do not intend at present that the provisions of the Military Service Acts should be enforced in respect of persons liable to service under those Acts who are at present residing in British Colonies and Protectorates.
2. The Army Council state that, while every endeavour will be made to utilize the services of such persons, should they return, they must do so at their own risk and
expense.
The Officer Administering the Government of
I have, &c.,
A. BONAR LAW.
HONGKONG.
PROCLAMATIONS.
No. 25.
[L.S.]
FRANCIS HENRY MAY, Governor.
By His Excellency Sir FRANCIS HENRY MAY Knight Commander of the Most Dis- tinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same :
Whereas by sub-clause 10 of Clause III of the Order of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria-in-Council made on the 26th day of October 1896 which was proclaimed in this Colony on the 5th day of August 1914 it is enacted that the Governor may by proclamation. prescribe the maximum price for which any article of food may be sold by retail and that any person who after such proclamation and until it shall have been revoked shall sell any article of food at a higher price than the prices so prescribed shall be deemed guilty of an offence against the said Order and shall on conviction thereof be liable to a fine not exceeding 50 dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months:
Now therefore I Sir FRANCIS HENRY MAY Knight Commander of the Most Distin- guished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same do hereby proclaim as follows:-
1. The maximum retail price of fresh cream sold by the Dairy Farm Company,
Limited, shall be $2.60 per pint.
2. The note relating to subsidiary coin in the proclamation of the 12th March,
1915, is repealed.
3. The note relating to subsidiary coin in the proclamation of the 14th May,
1915, is repealed.
Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Victoria Hongkong this 25th day of August 1916,
By Command,
CLAUD SEVERN,
Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE KING.
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