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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 26, 1915.

PROCLAMATIONS.

Proclamation No. 10 of the 12th March 1915 at paragraph 2 Tinned Milk (e) Eagle Brand per 1 lb. tin $0.30 is hereby revoked and the following substituted therefor:-

No. 12.

[L.S.]

FRANCIS HENRY MAY,

Governor.

By His Excellency 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:

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 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which any article of food may be sold by retail and that any person who after such proclamation and until it shall have been revoked shall sell any article of food at a higher price than the prices so prescribed shall be deemed guilty of an offence against the said Order and shall on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 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 do hereby pre- scribe that the maximum prices for which the following article of food may be sold by retail shall be as follows:-

Schedule of Maximum Retail Prices.

2. Tinned Milk:--

(e.) Eagle Brand, per 1 lb. tin,.........$0.38 KUA)-6E60 =£^U

Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Victoria Hongkong this 26th day of March 1915.

By Command,

GOD SAVE THE KING.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

CLAUD SEVERN,

Colonial Secretary.

No. 131.

Regulation made by the Governor-in-Council under sub-section (8) of section 4 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, (Ordinance No. 10 of 1899), this 11th day of March, 1915.

Regulation No. 111 of the Regulations relating to the Examination of Masters and Mates in the Mercantile Marine made by the Officer Administering the Government-in-