PROCLAMATION.
Proclamation No. 10 of the 12th March 1915 is hereby amended in respect of the following, viz.:-
No. 20.
Homag
Governor,
By His Excellency Sir FRANCIS HORY MAY Knight Commander of the Most Distio- 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 proclained 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which any article of food may be sold by retail and that any person who after such proclamation and until it shall have been revoked shall sell any article of food at a higher price than the prices so prescribed shall be deemed guilty of an offence against the said Order and shall on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 exceed- ing 50 dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months :
Now therefore 1 Sir FraAvots HANKY 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- scribe that the maximum prices for which the following articles of food may be sold by retail shall be as follows :--
Schedule of Maximum Retail Prices.
4. Frozen Meat :-
The Dairy Farm prices of frozen food and other stores as printed in the Dairy Farm price list and amended in red ink dated the 8th day of February, 1915, signed by the Chairman and Secretary of the Food Committee are the maximum retail prices of the articles enumerated in the said list except in the case of the subjoined articles, the prices of which are as follows :-
Butter, ("Daisy")
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("Dairymaid"). Buttercup ("Pastry"
Cheese............
..$1.10 per lb. $1.00 per lb. ..$ 90 per lb. .$ .80 per lb. .8.70 per Ib.