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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 21, 1941.

No. 219.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

It is hereby notified that IIis Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to appoint a Food and Firewood Control Board to advise him in matters concerning these two commodities, and has also been pleased to direct that a competent authority appointed for the purposes of regulation 50 of the Defence Regulations, 1940, shall in such matters exercise his powers and functions only in accord- ance with the recommendations of that Board.

21st February, 1941.

N. L. SMITH.

Colonial Secretary.

No. 220.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

It is hereby notified that His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to appoint the following persons to be members of the Food and Firewood Control Board :-

Brigadier ANDREW PEFFERS, O.B.E., (Chairman),

Paymaster Commander CECIL STANHOPE BLAIR HICKMAN,

R.N.,

Mr. DAVID LOCKE NEWBIGGING,

Mr. WILLIAM JOHN ANDERSON :

--and to direct that three members of the Board shall be a quorum and that, in the event of equality of votes, the Chairman shall have a second or casting vote.

No. 221.

21st February, 1941.

N. L. SMITH,

Colonial Secretary.

Order.

I, the Controller of Trade, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by regulation 50 of the Defence Regula- tions, 1940, with the consent of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government hereby prohibit the export except by licence under my hand or under the hand of an officer of my department on my behalf, of-

BINOCULARS OR OTHER SIMILAR OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS.

E. W. HAMILTON,

Controller of Trade.

21st February, 1941.