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Notices,

Empire Day Movement

(Non-Party Non-Sectarian
Non-Racial)

EMPIRE DAY, 1955.
A Message from the President

THE Rt. Hon. THE KARL OF
GOwWRIn,

V.C., P.C., G.C.M.G., C.B., D.8.0.

It is with sad feelings that I send
you my Empire Day Message this
year. Sixty-five years ago I was
commissioned in the Army by Queen
VicToRIA. Ten years ago I returned
to this country after completing my
final service overseas as Governor-
General of the Commonwealth of
Australia.

Now this, my eleventh Message,
must also be my last; because I have
regretfully decided that the time has
come for me to hand over my work,
as President, to someone younger.

Ags your President I have tried to
show you something of what it
means to grow up in the vast family
of nations which makes up our
Commonwealth and Empire. A fami-
ly including ay equal members people
of so many different races,

I spoke of the travels of our young
Queen and her husband and their
great happiness in the friendship
they found among their peoples
overseas. And I know of your
delight in seeing for yourselves the
Queen who belongs to you, and also
this year. the PRINCESS MARGARET
during her splendid tour in the
Weat Indies.

Now, today, in taking leave of you,
I remind you that each one of you is
important ag a person; you have your
own place and your own work wait-
ing to be done, if you have not
already begun it. There are splen-
did opportunities for service. There
is outlet for adventure and enterprise,
and also room for the quiet courage
and determination of those who are
not physically strong.

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I have enjoyed working with you
all for our Empire Day Movement,
and I shall always think of you on
this day in what I hope will be peace-
ful end happy years in the future.

May God bless you and strengthen
our friendship now and always.

GOWRIE.

BY THE OFFICER FOR THE
TIME BEING ADMINISTERING
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE
PRESIDENCY OF ANTIGUA.

A PROCLAMATION.

ALEC LOVELACE,
Administrator.

WHEREAS by section 6 of the
Public Holidays Act 1954 (No.
19/1954) it is enacted that it shall be
lawful for the Governor from time to
time with the advice of the Executive
Council of a Presidency to issue a
Proclamation appointing a_ special
day or part of a day to be reserved as
a public holiday in such Presidency
as provided in the said section:

AND WHEREAS the Governor
with the advice of the Executive
Council of the Presideney of Antigua
considers it desirable that Wednesday
the Ist day of June 1955, should be
observed ag a Public Holiday in the
said Presidency.

NOW THEREFORE, I do by this
my Proclamation appoint Wednesday
the Ist day of June, 1955, as a
special day to be reserved as a
Public Holiduy in the Presidency of
Antigua, under and in accordance
with the provisions of section 6 of
the Public Holidays Act, 1954 and
command that the said day be so
reserved and kept.

And All Her Majesty’s loving sub-
jects in the said Presidency and all
others whom it may ooncern are
hereby required to take due notice
hereof and to give their ready
obedience accordingly.

GIVEN at the Administrator’s Office
in the City of Saint John, Antigua,
this 13th day of May, 1955 and in
the. fifth year of Her Majesty’s
reign.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

 

Consequent upon the grant of forty
(40) days vacation leave to Mr. C. Mc.
A. STEVENS, Collector of Custems,
Mr. R. L. BLANCHARD, Principal,
Customs, has been appointed to act as
Collector of Customs from 13th May,
1955.

Administrator’s Office,
Antigua.
16th May, 1955.

Ref. No. A. C. 13/65-II.

 

No. 49.

Appointments and transfers etc.,
in the public service, with effect from
the dates stated, are published for
general information:—

R. NoRRIS, Assistant Colonial Secre-
tary (Establishment), appointed to
act as Colonial Secretary from the
20th to the 28th May, 1955, inclu-
sive, during the absence in St. Kitts-
Nevis-Anguilla of the Colonial
Secretary.

The Secretariat,
Antigua.
13th May, 1955.

Ref. No. P. F. 429.

OONFIRMATION OF ORDINANCLES.

No. 50.

The Secretary of State for the
Colonies has notified the Governor
that the power of disallowance will
not be exercised in respect of the un-
dermentioned Ordinances:—

St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla.

_ No. 14 of 1954, “The Firearms
(Amendment) Ordinance, 1954.”

Montserrat.

No. 15 of 1954, “The Animals
(Diseases and Importation) Ordinance,
1954”.

No. 51.

The following Statutory Rule and
Order is circulated with this Gazette
and forms part thereof:—

General Government.
No. 19 of 1955, “The
(Montserrat) Order, 1955.”
2 pp. Price 4 cents.

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