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PROCLAMATION.

The Maximum Retail Price for which "Sugar" may be sold as set out in Proclamation No. 25 of the 18th December, 1914, under the heading "3. Sugar" is hereby revoked.

No. 4.

Hornay

Governor.

HARUKORG

By His Excellency Sir Fravers 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 Bougkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Adtuical of the same :

Whereas by sub-clause 10 of Clause III of the Order of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria-iu-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which any article of food may be sold by retail and that any person who after such proclamation and until it shall have been revoked shall sell any article of food at a higher price than the prices so prescribed shall be deerned guilty of an offence against the said Order and shall on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 termu not exceeding three mouths :

Now therefore I Sir FRANCIS HENKY 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 price for which the following urticle of food may be sold by retail shall be as follows :-

Schedule of Maximum Retail Prices.

3. Sugar

Cube, (in 6 lb. tins), per tin,

Refined Crystallized, per lb., Granulated, per lb.,

Soft, No. 1 quality, per lb.,

No. 3

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19

"1

$ 4.

1.15

.19

.19

.12

11

Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Victoria, Hongkong, this 29th day of January, 1915.

By Command,

God Save Tas King.

Band Sevem

Colonial Secretary.