35949-1914-PROCLAMATION — Page 2

292 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 7, 1914.

And whereas by the fourth section of the Military Stores (Exportation) Ordinance 1862 as renumbered by the Military Stores (Exportation) Ordinance 1914 it is enacted that the Governor may whilst any such proclamation is in force permit to be exported or to be carried coastwise or to be water-borne to be so exported or carried any particular articles or class of articles the export of which is prohibited by such proclamation to such persons and on such terms and subject to such conditions and regulations if any as to the Governor may seem fit and may at any time revoke or vary the terms of any such permission :

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 by and with the advice of the Executive Council of this Colony do by this Proclamation subject to the provi- sions of the said fourth section of the said Ordinance prohibit for a period of six months from and including the 7th day of August 1914 to be exported from the Colony of Hongkong the following provisions and victuals namely :-

Butter.

Flour.

Frozen Meat.

Live Cattle. Oatmeal.

Potatoes.

Rice.

Sugar. Tapioca.

Tinned Milk.

Tinned provisions of all kinds.

Provided that this proclamation shall not apply to ship's stores.

Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Victoria, Hongkong, this 7th day of August, 1914.

By Command,

CLAUD SEVERN,

Colonial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE KING.

APPOINTMENTS, &c.

No. 294.-His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the following gentlemen to be Members of a Committee to fix from time to time the maximum price for

any article of food may be sold by retail in the Colony

which

The Honourable Mr. EDWARD DUDLEY CORSCADEn Wolfe, Colonial Treasurer. The Honourable Mr. EDBERT ANSgar Hewett, C.M.G.

The Honourable Mr. LAU CHU PAK.

Mr. STANLEY HUDSON Dodwell,

Mr. ALFRED HOLLAND SKELTON,

Mr. ALAN GRIFFITHS COPPIN.

7th August, 1914.

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