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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 9, 1929.
NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. 394.-With reference to Proclamation No. 1 of 1929, published in the Gazette of the 18th January, 1929, the following Proclamation of the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia is published for general information.
9th August, 1929.
W. T. SOUTHORN,
Colonial Secretary.
THE TERRITORY FOR THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT.
PROCLAMATION.
Commonwealth of Australia to wit.
STONEHAVEN
Governor-General.
By His Excellency the Governor- General of the Commonwealth
of Australia.
HEREAS it is provided by the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Ordinance 1927, of the Territory for the Seat of Government that where the Governor-General is satisfied that reciprocal provisions have been made by the Legis lature or other competent authority of any part of His Majesty's Dominious outside England and Ireland for the enforcement within that part of maintenance orders made by Courts within the Territory, the Governor-General may by Proclamation published in the Gazette declare that part to be a reciprocating State for the purposes of that
Ordinance:
And whereas the Governor General is satisfied that reciprocal provisions have been made by the Legislatures of the colony of Hong Kong, Bahama Islands, Jamaica and Nigeria and by the competent authority in that behalf of Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland for the enforcement within those parts of His Majesty's Dominions (not including in the case of Nigeria the British Cameroons) of Maintenance Orders made by Courts within the Territory:
Now therefore 1, JOHN LAWRENCE, BARON STONEHAVEN, the Governor-General afore- said, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby declare the Colony of Hong Kong, Bahama Islands, Jamaica and Nigeria (not including the British Cameroons), Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland to be reciprocating States for the purposes of the said Ordinance.
(L.S.)
Given under my Hand and the Seal of the Commonwealth, at Sydney, this fifteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, and in the nineteenth year of His Majesty's reign.
By His Excellency's Command,
J. E. OGDEN
for Attorney-General.
Gob SAVE THE KING!