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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 98

Regulations imposing Export Duty on Copra and Pearl Shell exported from the Cook Islands.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of June, 1918.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by sections fifty-three, fifty-five, and fifty-six of the Cook Islands Act, 1915, the Governor-General in Council is empowered to make all such regulations as he thinks necessary for the peace, order, and good government of the Cook Islands, and that such regulations may relate to the imposition of tolls, rates, dues, fees, taxes, and other charges, and may prescribe penalties for the breach of such regulations: And whereas it is expedient to make regulations prescribing a duty to be paid on all copra or pearl shell exported from the Cook Islands:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations accordingly; and doth hereby declare that these regulations shall come into force in those Islands on the first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

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REGULATIONS.

1. THERE shall be levied and payable on all copra and pearl shell exported from the Cook Islands the following export duties, that is to say:—

   Upon copra a duty of £1 per ton.
   Upon pearl shell a duty of £4 per ton.

2. These duties shall constitute a debt due to the Crown by the exporter of copra or pearl shell.

3. No copra or pearl shell shall be laden on board any ship for export on that ship from the Cook Islands until the amount of duty payable under clause 1 hereof has been paid to the Collector of Customs.

4. Any person lading or concerned in lading copra or pearl shell on which duty has not been paid shall be guilty of an offence.

5. Any person committing a breach of these regulations shall be liable upon conviction to a fine not exceeding £50, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Time for Preparation of Valuation Roll, Southland County, under Section 46 of the Rating Act, 1908, extended.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this second day of July, 1918.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR JAMES ALLEN, K.C.B., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the County Council of the Southland County having failed, through misadventure, to prepare the valuation roll of mining property in the Southland County in the month of January, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, as required by section forty-six of the Rating Act, 1908, it is expedient to extend the time for preparing the said roll as hereinbefore mentioned:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in order that the purpose and intent of the said Rating Act, 1908, may have effect, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby extend the time for the preparation of the valuation roll for the Southland County under the Rating Act, 1908, until the thirteenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen; and doth also hereby extend the time within which the valuers shall give notice of the rateable value determined by them to each occupier, so that such notices may be given on or before the fifteenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, and that objections to such valuations may be made on or before the twenty-ninth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

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Notifying the Proposed Exchange of Crown Land in the Auckland Land District for other Land.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and forty-two of the Land Act, 1908, as amended by section seventeen of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor-General, whenever he deems it expedient in the public interest, to grant in fee-simple any area of Crown land which is subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, in exchange for the fee-simple of any other land, and on any such exchange to pay or receive by way of equality of exchange any sum not exceeding twenty-five per centum of the estimated value of the Crown land so granted:

And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor-General, it is expedient to exchange the Crown land described in the First Schedule hereto for the land of equal value described