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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 26, 1940.

No. 477.

The following is published for general information :----

All orders for foodstuffs from the United Kingdom for consignment to Hong Kong should in future be submitted to the Controller of Food for endorsement before they are despatched. As no control is at present being exercised on the export from the United Kingdom of many articles of food endorsement in the ease of such foodstuffs will be merely formal. Neglect to secure endorsement may, however, result in loss of priority of shipment by the exporters, and consignees are therefore advised to obtain endorsement in advance in all cases.

No. 478.

G. S. KENNEDY-SKIPTON,

Controller of Food.

24th April, 1910.

Hong Kong.

ORDINANCE No. 25 of 1914. (TRADING WITH

THE ENEMY),

By virtue and in exercise of the powers conferred on nim by section 20 of the Trading with the Enemy Ordinance, 1914, and all other powers enabling him in that behalf. His Excellency the Governor hereby makes the following order in respect of money which has been or is required to be paid to the Custodian under the said Ordinance :

Order.

Any money required to be paid to the Custodian under the provisions of the Trading with the Enemy Ordinance, 1911, shall be paid, in cases in which money would, but for the existence of a state of war, be payable in a foreign currency to or for the benefit of a person who is an enemy, in such foreign currency if obtainable, but the Custodian shall offer such foreign currency to the Government for sale as if it were held by a British subject resident in the Colony under Regulation 5 (1) of the Defence (Finance) Regulations, 1940, or, if such foreign currency is not obtainable, in Hong Kong dollars at the official rate of exchange quoted by the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation on the date on which the payment became due to that person (other than in cases in which money is payable under a contract in which provision is made for a specified rate of exchange).

Dated the 26th day of April, 1940.

By Command.

N. L. SMITH,

Colonial Secretary.