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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 27, 1914.

PROCLAMATIONS.

No. 23.

[L.S.]

FRANCIS HENRY MAY,

Governor.

By His Excellency Sir FRANCIS HENRY MAY Knight Commander of the Most Dis- tinguished 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 the second section of the Military Stores (Exportation) Ordinance 1862 as amended by the Military Stores (Exportation) Ordinance 1914 it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor by and with the advice of the Executive Council by proclamation to prohibit for such period as may be therein mentioned either to be exported from the Colony of Hongkong or to be carried coastwise within the said Colony arms ammunition and gunpowder military and naval stores and any articles which the Governor may judge capable of being converted into or made useful in increasing the quantity of military or naval stores provisions or any sort of victual which may be used as food by man or any or either of such arms ammunition gunpowder stores goods or articles respectively:

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 Distinguished 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 provisions of the said fourth section of the said Ordinance prohibit for a period of six months from and including the 27th day of November 1914 the exportation

1. Except to British Ports of the following, namely,

(a.) rubber, and graphite suitable for the manufacture of crucibles;

2. To all foreign ports in Europe and on the Mediterranean and Black Sea with the exception of those of France Russia (except the Baltic ports) Spain and Portugal of the following articles :-

(a) All foodstuffs, and raw materials for foodstuffs, for man and beast,

(b) Copra, palm kernels and cocoa beans,

(c) All articles mentioned in Government Notification No. 442 published

in a Gazette Extraordinary on the 11th November 1914,

(d) Motors of all kinds, motor tyres, range finders, nickel and nickel ore,

chrome ore and woolled sheep skins.

Provided that nothing in this proclamation contained shall be deemed to affect in any way the proclamations made by me under the provisions of the said Ordinance on the 5th day of August 1914, the 8th day of August 1914 and the 31st day of October, 1914.

Provided also 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 27th day of November, 1914.

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By Command,

CLAUD SEVERN,

Colonial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE KING.