New Zealand Gazette – 1915 – No. 120

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✨ Contraband of War Proclamation

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 120

Contraband of War.

THE following Proclamation by His Majesty the King is published by His Excellency the Governor for the information of the public.

BY THE KING.

A PROCLAMATION

Revising the List of Articles to be treated as Contraband of War.

GEORGE R.I.

WHEREAS on the twenty-third day of December, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, We did issue Our Royal Proclamation specifying the articles which it was Our intention to treat as contraband during the continuance of hostilities or until We did give further public notice: And whereas on the eleventh day of March and on the twenty-seventh day of May and on the twentieth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, We did by Our Royal Proclamations of those dates make certain additions to the list of articles to be treated as contraband of war: And whereas it is expedient to make certain further additions to and amendments in the said lists:

Now, therefore, We do hereby declare, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, that the lists of contraband contained in the Schedules to Our Royal Proclamation of the twenty-third day of December, as subsequently amended by Our Proclamations of the eleventh day of March and of the twenty-seventh day of May and of the twentieth day of August aforesaid, are hereby withdrawn, and that in lieu thereof during the continuance of the war or until We do give further public notice the articles enumerated in Schedule I hereto will be treated as absolute contraband, and the articles enumerated in Schedule II hereto will be treated as conditional contraband.

SCHEDULE I.

Arms of all kinds, including arms for sporting purposes, and their component parts.
Implements and apparatus designed exclusively for the manufacture of munitions of war, or for the manufacture or repair of arms or of war material for use on land or sea.
Lathes and other machines or machine tools capable of being employed in the manufacture of munitions of war.
Emery, corundum natural and artificial, alundum, and carborundum, in all forms.
Projectiles, charges, and cartridges of all kinds, and their component parts.
Paraffin wax.
Powder and explosives specially prepared for use in war.
Materials used in the manufacture of explosives, including nitric acid and nitrates of all kinds, sulphuric acid, fuming sulphuric acid (oleum), acetic acid and acetates, barium chlorate and perchlorate, calcium acetate, nitrate and carbide potassium salts and caustic potash, ammonium salts and ammonia liquor, caustic soda, sodium chlorate and perchlorate, mercury; benzol, toluol, xylo1, solvent naphtha, phenol (carbolic acid), cresol, naphthalene, and their mixtures and derivatives; aniline and its derivatives, glycerine, acetone, acetic ether, ethyl alcohol, methyl alcohol, ether, sulphur, urea, cyanamide, celluloid.