582868-1940-Food-Control-Order-Standard-price-for-Powdered-Milk-and-Land — Page 1

THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 9. 1940.

No. 900.

It is hereby notified that ARTHUR JAMES Kew has been re-assigned from the Combatant Group to the General Group for Essential Services in the Hong Kong Defence Reserve under the provisions of the Compulsory Service Ordinance, 1939.

No. 901.

8th August, 1940.

C. BRAMALL Burgess, Clerk to the Compulsory Service Tribunal.

Order.

I, JAMES HARPER TAGGART, Controller of Food, by virtue and in exercise of the powers vested in me by the Defence Regulations, 1940, with the consent of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, hereby make the following order :-

The standard price for the following articles of food shall, until further notice, be as follows :-

Brand.

Standard Price.

Powdered Milk.

Glaxo, 2 lbs. tin

Glaxo, 1 lb. tin

5.00 per tin.

2.70

JJ

Margarine and Vegetable Lard.

Star Margarine, 35 lb. tins

Star Margarine, unpacked

..10.00 per tin. .30 per

Ib.

Vegetable Lard.

Purico, 30 lb. tins

6.75 per tin.

.25 per lb.

Purico, unpacked

J. H. TAGGART,

Controller of Food.

9th August, 1940.

NOTE.—The above order amends the standard price fixed by Government Notification No. 880 in the Gazette of 2nd August, 1940, for the article of food men-

tioned.

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