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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 28, 1916.

PROCLAMATIONS.

Paragraphs 2 and 4 of Proclamation No. 10 of the 12th March 1915 are hereby revoked and the following substituted therefor:

No. 3.

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any article of food may be sold by retail and that any person who after such proclamation and until it shall have been revoked shall sell any article of food at a higher price than the prices so prescribed shall be deemed guilty of an offence against the said Order and shall on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

Schedule of Maximum Retail Prices.

2. Tinned Milk :-

(a.) Sweetened Condensed Milk, per

1 lb. tin, ...

(b.) Unsweetened Condensed Milk,

per 1 lb. tin,

(c.) Sterilized Milk, per tin, (18 oz.), (d.)

per 1 litre tin,

(e.) Skimmed Milk, per 1 lb. tin,...

4. Frozen Meat :—

罐奶

.37 有糖罐奶一磅庄每罐 三毫七仙

.25 無糖罐奶一磅庄每罐 二毫 .25生奶(煲滾之奶)十八庄每罐二毫 .35 牛奶(:, 3,一列打庄每罐 三毫 20k (*)

二毫

The Dairy Farm prices of frozen food and other stores as

printed in the Dairy Farm price list and amended in red ink dated the 21st day of December, 1915, signed by the Chairman and Secretary of the Food Committee are the maximum retail prices of the articles enumerated in the said list. [Approved copies can be seen either at the Treasury or on the premises of the Dairy Farm Company, Limited, in Wyndham Street.]

Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Victoria Hongkong this 28th day of January 1916.

By Command,

CLAUD SEVERN,

Colonial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE KING.