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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 4, 1920.

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No. 316. His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Subadar- Major BHAN SINGH, Hongkong-Singapore Battalion, Royal Garrison Artillery, to be one of his Honorary Aides-de-Camp eice Subadar-Major RosпAN KHAN, D.C.M., Hongkong- Singapore Battalion, Royal Garrison Artillery, retired, with effect from this date.

4th June, 1920,

No. 317.--lis Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Mr. ROBERT HUNTER to act as an Assistant Government Marine Surveyor during the absence on leave of Mr. JAMES MACDONALD or until further notice, with effect from the 1st May, 1920.

4th Jane, 1920.

NOTICES.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

No. 318. The following Order of His Majesty in Council prohibiting the importa- tion into the United Kingdom of shaving brushes manufactured in, or exported from, the Empire of Japan, is published for general information.

AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,

THE 9TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1920.

PRESENT,

THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Section of the Anthrax Prevention Act, 1919, it is enacted (inter

alia) that His Majesty may, by Order in Council, make provision for preventing the importation into the United Kingdom of goods infected or likely to be infected with anthrax, and that an Order so made may declare that goods of any specified class which are of any specified origin, or are exported from any specified country or place, are goods likely to be infected with anthrax, and that any such declaration shall be conclusive for all purposes:

And whereas it appears to His Majesty, and it is hereby declared, that shaving brushes manufactured in the Empire of Japan or exported therefrom are goods likely to be infected with anthrax :

Now, therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, in pursu ance of the powers conferred on Him by the said Act and of all other powers enabling Him in that behalf, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:---

4. This Order may be cited as the Anthrax Prevention (Shaving Brushes) Order,

1920.

2. On and after the date of this Order the importation into the United Kingdom of shaving brushes manufactured in or exported from the Empire of Japan shall be prohibited.

3. This Order applies in the case of shaving brushes as aforesaid whether such shaving brushes are exported direct to the United Kingdom or otherwise. 4. The provisions of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, and more particu- Farly Sections 42, 177, 186, 202 and 207 of that Act (which relate to penalties by way of forfeiture and otherwise) shall apply as respects any shaving brushes of which the importation is prohibited under this Order as though such shaving brushes were goods whereof the importation is prohibited under Section 42 of that Act.

ALMERIC FITZROY,

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