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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 55

Articles prohibited to be imported to the United Kingdom.

Customs Department,
Wellington, 15th April, 1918.

IT is notified for general information that Proclamations have been issued by the Imperial Government prohibiting the importation to the United Kingdom, except under license of the Board of Trade, of the undermentioned goods.

Applications for licenses are to be addressed to the Controller, Department of Import Restrictions, 22 Carlisle Place, Westminster, London, S.W.

Licenses will be granted for the importation of goods sent by post for repairs and return to New Zealand.

Abrasive wheels.
Aerated, mineral, and table waters.
Agricultural machinery.
Aluminium, manufactures of.
Aluminium powder.
Animals, wild.
Antimony ore ; antimony, crude and regulus ; and antimony sulphide.
Antimony ware.
Apparel, not waterproofed.
Automatic machines for the retail sale of any article.
Bacon.
Baskets and basketware.
Baths of metal.
Beer.
Binder or reaper twine.
Birds, live, including quail, but excluding other poultry and game.
Bladders, casings, and sausage-skins.
Bonds, debentures, stock or share certificates, scrip and other documents of title relating to any stocks, shares, or other securities (with the exception of matured bonds redeemable in the United Kingdom and coupons falling due for payment in the United Kingdom).
Bone, horn, ivory, and celluloid, manufactures of.
Books, printed, and other printed matter, including printed posters and daily, weekly, and other periodical publications imported otherwise than in single copies through the post.
Boots and shoes of leather.
Brass rod and brass wire.
Brooms and brushes.
Bulbs, flower-roots, plants, trees, and shrubs.
Butter.
Carbons for arc lamps.
Carbons for searchlights.
Carpets and rugs of all descriptions.
Carpet-sweepers.
Cartridges of all kinds, and parts thereof.
Cash-registers.
Cement.
China-ware, earthenware, and pottery.
Clocks, and parts thereof.
Cloisonné wares.
Cocoa, preparations of.
Cocoa, raw.
Coffee.
Coins (other than gold or silver) coined in any foreign country.
Cotton-yarn, cotton piecegoods, cotton hosiery, cotton lace, and cotton manufactures of all kinds.
Curios.
Cutlery.
Cycles other than motor-cycles.
Dairy machinery.
Diatomite or infusorial earth.
Electric dry cells, and carbons therefor.
Electric hand lamps and torches.
Electric meters.
Electrical motors.
Embroidery and needlework.
Fancy-goods, known as Paris goods.
Fatty acids.
Feathers, ornamental, and down.
Fire-extinguishers.
Flowers, fresh or artificial.
Fruit (canned, bottled, dried, and preserved), except currants.
Fruit, raw, of all descriptions (except lemons and bitter oranges), and almonds and nuts used as fruit.
Furniture, manufactured joinery, and other wood manufactures.
Glass, and manufactures of glass.
Gloves.
Gold, manufactured or unmanufactured, including gold coin, and articles consisting partly of or containing gold. (Gold consigned for delivery at, and sale to, the Bank of England is excepted.)

Gum, copal.
Gum, kauri.
Guns, rifles, and carbines, of all kinds.
Hams.
Hardware and hollow-ware.
Hats and bonnets.
Hides, wet and dry.
Hops.
Horns and hoofs.
Ice.
Incandescent gas-mantles.
Ivory, vegetable.
Jewellery of all descriptions.
Jute, raw.
Lacquered wares.
Lard (other than neutral lard).
Lawn-mowers.
Leather, dressed and undressed.
Leather, manufactures of, other than belting.
Linen, yarns and manufactures of.
Lobsters, canned.
Machine tools and parts thereof, excluding small tools.
Machinery, viz. :

All machinery driven by power and suitable for use in cutting, working, or operating on wood, including sawing machines of all descriptions, general joiners’ mortise, tenon, and boring machines, lathes and rounding machines, box and cask making machines and all machines accessory thereto, scraping and sandpapering machines, wheelwright machinery, firewood making and bundling machinery ; wood-wool, wood-fibre, and wood-pulp machinery.

Saw sharpening and setting machines, saw stretchers and brazing apparatus.

All machines for grinding planing-irons or moulding-irons.

Magnetos.
Matches.
Mats and matting.
Measuring tapes and rules of all descriptions, including verniers.
Micrometers.
Mops.
Moss litter.
Motor-cars, chassis, motor-cycles, and parts and accessories of motor-cars and motor-cycles (other than tires).
Musical instruments (including gramophones and pianolas and other similar instruments), and accessories and component parts and records therefor.
Oilcloth.
Painters’ colours and pigments.
Paper and cardboard (including strawboard, pasteboard, millboard, and wood-pulp board), and manufactures of paper and cardboard.
Paper, materials for the manufacture of, including wood-pulp, esparto-grass, and linen and cotton rags.
Pens, penholders, pencils, and all other stationery.
Perfumery and toilet preparations.
Photographic apparatus.
Pictures, prints, engravings, photographs, and maps.
Plaiting of all descriptions.
Plated and gilt wares.
Rattans and malacca canes.
Revolveres and pistols.
Rubber, manufactures of.
Salmon, canned.
Salt.
Sewing-machines.
Silk and artificial silk, manufactures of, not including yarns.
Silver, manufactures of, other than silver watches and silver watch-cases.
Skins and furs, manufactures of.
Soap.
Soya beans.
Spirits and strong waters of all kinds.
Stereoscopes.
Stones and slates.
Stoves and ranges.
Straw envelopes for bottles.
Straw plaiting.
Sugar ; articles and preparations containing sugar, used for food (except condensed milk) ; molasses ; invert sugar, and all other sugars and extracts from sugar which cannot be completely tested by the polariscope and on which Customs is not otherwise charged. (NOTE.—Small gift parcels of sugar may be forwarded by post to members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.)
Tanning-extracts, the following, viz. : Chestnut, quebracho, hemlock, oak, and mangrove extracts.
Tea.
Tobacco, unmanufactured and manufactured (including cigars and cigarettes).