PROCLAMATION.
Proclamations No. 14 of the 18th August, 1914, No. 15 of the 22nd August, 1914, and No. 16 of the 11th September, 1914, are hereby cancelled and the following substituted therefor
No. 18.
Annay
Covernor.
By His Excellency Sir FRANCIS Hever 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:
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 'olony on the 5th day of August 1914 it is enacted that the Governor many 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which any article of food may be sold by retail and that any person who after such proclamation and until it shall have been revoked shall sell any article of food at a higher price than the prices so prescribed shall be deemed guilty of an offence against the said Order and shall on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 exceed- ing 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 pre- acribe that the respective maxiroum prices for which the following articles of food may be sold by retail sball be as follows :--
Schedule of Maximum Retail Prices.
1. Tour:-
(a.) First Grade.
per bag of 50 lbs.,
per lb.
$ c.
4.50
.10
(6.) Second Grade.
per bag of 50 lbs.,
4,00
per lb.,
.08
(4.) Third Grade.
per lag of 50 lbs.,
3.50
per lb.,
.07