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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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products; machinery, tools, and apparatus; medical,
surgical, laboratory, and sanitary supplies and equip-
ment;] all metals, minerals, mineral oils, ores, and
all derivatives and manufactures thereof; paper-pulp,
books, and printed matter; rubber, gums, rosins,
tars, and waxes, their products, derivatives, and
substitutes, and all articles containing them; wood
and wood manufactures; coffee, cocoa, tea, and spices;
wines, spirits, mineral waters, and beverages;
shall not, on and after the 30th day of August in the year
1917, be exported from or shipped from or taken out of
the United States or its territorial possessions to Albania,
Austria-Hungary, that portion of Belgium occupied by
the military forces of Germany, Bulgaria, Denmark, her
Colonies, Possessions, or Protectorates, Germany, her
Colonies, Possessions, or Protectorates, Greece, Liechten-
stein, Luxembourg, the Kingdom of the Netherlands,
Norway, Spain, her Colonies, Possessions, or Protectorates,
Sweden, Switzerland, or Turkey (excluding any portion
of the foregoing occupied by the military forces of the
United States or the nations associated with the United
States in the war), or any territory occupied by the military
forces of Germany or her allies; and

I do hereby further proclaim to all whom it may concern
that the public safety requires that, except at such time
or times, and under such regulations and orders, and
subject to such limitations and exceptions as the President
shall prescribe, until otherwise ordered by the President
or by Congress, the following articles, namely,—

Coal; coke; fuel oils, lubricating oils, hand-lantern oil,
naphtha, benzine, red oil, kerosene, and gasoline;
all bunkers; food grains, flour and meal therefrom,
cornflour, barley, riceflour, rice, oatmeal, and rolled
oats; fodder and feeds, oil cake, oil-meal cake, malt,
and peanuts; all meats and fats, poultry, cotton-seed
oil, corn oil, copra, desiccated coconuts, butter,
fresh, dried, and canned fish, edible or inedible grease
of animal or vegetable origin, linseed oil, lard, tinned
milk, peanut oil and butter, rape-seed oil, tallow,
tallow candles, and stearic acid; sugar, glucose,
syrup, and molasses; pig iron, ferro-silicon, and
spiegeleisen; steel ingots, billets, blooms, slabs, and
sheet bars; iron and steel plates, including ship,
boiler, tank, and all other iron and steel plates one-
eighth of an inch thick and heavier and wider than
6 inches; iron and steel structural shapes, including
beams, channels, angles, tees, and zees of all sizes;
fabricated structural iron and steel, including beams,
channels, angles, tees, zees, and plates, fabricated
and shipped knocked down; scrap iron and scrap
steel; ferro-manganese; tool steel, high-speed steel
and alloy steels and machine tools; steel-hardening
materials; fertilizers, including cattle and sheep
manure, nitrate of soda, poudrette, potato manure,
potassium salts, land plaster, potash, cyanamide,
phosphoric acid, phosphate rock, superphosphate,
chlorate of potash, bonemeal, bone-flour, ground bone,
dried blood, ammonia, and ammonia salts, acid phos-
phates, guano, humus, hardwood ashes, soot, anhydrous
ammonia; aeronautical machines and instruments,
their parts and accessories thereof; arms and ammuni-
tion; all explosives, nitrate of potash, rosin, saltpetre,
turpentine, ether, alcohol, sulphur, sulphuric acid
and its salts, acetone, nitric acid and its salts, benzol
and its derivatives, phenol (carbolic acid) and its
derivatives, toluol and its derivatives, mercury and
its salts, glycerine, potash and its salts, all cyanides
and films; carrier and other pigeons, anti-aircraft
instruments, apparatus, and accessories; all radio and
wireless apparatus and its accessories; optical glass,
optical instruments and reflectors; cotton and cotton
linters; wool, wool rags, wool and khaki clippings
and wool products; flax, sisal, jute, hemp, and all
manufactures thereof; hides, skins, leather, leather
belting, sole and upper leather, leather boots and
shoes, harness and saddles, and leather clothing; soap
and soap powders; all engines and motors operated
by steam, gas, electricity, or other motive power and
their accessories; metal- and wood-working machinery;
oil-well casing, oil-well-drilling implements and ma-
chinery and the accessories thereof; steam boilers,
turbines, condensers, pumps, and accessories thereof;
all electrical equipment; crucibles; emery, emery
wheels, carborundum, and all artificial abrasives;
copper, including copper ingots, bars, rods, plates,
sheets, tubes, wire and scrap thereof; lead and white
lead; tin, tin-plate, tin-cans, and all articles con-
taining tin; nickel, aluminium, zinc, plumbago, and
platinum; newspaper, print paper, wood-pulp, and
cellulose; ash, spruce, walnut, mahogany, oak, and
birch woods; and industrial diamonds;

shall not,[on and after the 30th day of August in the year
1917, be exported from, shipped from, or taken out of the
United States or its territorial possessions to Abyssinia,
Afghanistan, Argentina, that portion of Belgium not
occupied by the military forces of Germany, or the Colonies,
Possessions, or Protectorates of Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil,
China, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican
Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, France, her Colonies, Posses-
sions, or Protectorates, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Italy,
her Colonies, Possessions, or Protectorates, Great Britain,
her Colonies, Possessions, or Protectorates, Japan, Liberia,
Mexico, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua,
the Colonies, Possessions, or Protectorates of The Nether-
lands, Oman, Panama, Paraguay, Persia, Peru, Portugal,
her Colonies, Possessions, or Protectorates, Roumania,
Russia, Salvador, San Marino, Serbia, Siam, Uruguay,
Venezuela (excluding any portion of the foregoing occupied
by the military forces of Germany or her allies), or any
territory occupied by the military forces of the United
States or by the nations associated with the United States
in the war.

The regulations, orders, limitations, and exceptions
prescribed will be administered by and under the authority
of the Exports Administrative Board, from whom licenses
in conformity with said regulations, orders, limitations,
and exemptions will issue.

Export Licenses for certain Articles to be issued only if such
Articles are destined for actual War Purposes.

In connection with the above, it may be noted that,
according to information which has been received in the
Board of Trade, through the Foreign Office, export licenses
in respect of the articles specified below will only be granted
when such articles are destined for actual war purposes or
for purposes directly contributing thereto:—

Acetone, alcohol, aluminium, ammonia salts, ammonia
nitrate, anhydrous ammonia, arsenate of lead, arsenate
of soda, boiler tubes (iron and steel), butter, carbolic
acid (phenol), castor oil and castor beans, chrome
and nickel steel, cotton linters, cyanide of sodium,
ferro-manganese, ferro-silicon, ferro-vanadium, flax,
glycerine, iron and steel plates, including ship, boiler,
tank, and other iron and steel plates one-eighth inch
thick and heavier and wider than six inches, whether
plain or fabricated, mercury salts, nitrate of soda,
nitric acid, nitric salts, phosphoric acid, phosphorus,
pig iron, potash and chlorate of potash, potassium
salts, saltpetre, scrap iron, scrap steel, searchlights
and generators suited for army or navy use, sodium
sulphite, spiegeleisen, stearin and stearic acid, steel
billets, steel blooms, steel sheet bars, steel slabs,
sugar, sulphate of ammonia, sulphur and sulphuric
acid, superphosphate, tinplates, toluol, tungsten,
wireless apparatus, wheat, wheat flour, wool rags.

Procedure to be followed in applying for Export Licenses.

The Board of Trade have also received, through the
Foreign Office, copy of an American official circular giving
certain information as to the procedure to be followed by
United States exporters in applying for export licenses.
Inter alia, it is notified that such licenses when granted will
be valid for 60 days (unless revoked prior thereto), and that
if not used at the expiration of that time they must be
renewed in order to retain their validity. Further information
as to the contents of the circular referred to may be obtained
by British traders interested, on application, at the Depart-
ment of Commercial Intelligence, 73 Basinghall Street,
London E.C. 2.

The Finance Act, 1917.—Income-tax payable.

Land and Income Tax Office,
Wellington, 10th January, 1918.

BY Order in Council, made and issued by His Excellency
the Governor-General in Council on the 8th day of
October, 1917, under the authority of the above Act, it was
determined that the respective duties by way of income-tax
and special war-tax leviable under sections 38 and 39 re-
spectively of the said Act, should be paid in one sum on
Monday, the 28th day of January, 1918, at the office of the
Commissioner of Taxes, Government Buildings, Wellington ;
and, in accordance with such Order in Council, I hereby
give notice that the said duties will be payable accordingly.
Additional tax will accrue if the tax is not paid on or before
18th February, 1918. The liability to pay is not suspended
by any objection. The tax should be paid on or before the
prescribed date, and any refund necessary will be made
later. If not paid additional tax will accrue.

D. G. CLARK,
Commissioner of Taxes.