May 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1669

15. The Administrator may, by notice in the Western Samoa Gazette, impose such charges as he thinks fit for the receipt, discharge, or storage of goods received into a King’s warehouse, or upon any wharf or examining-place belonging to the Crown.

16. (1.) There shall be levied, collected, and paid to the use of His Majesty on goods imported into Samoa the several duties of Customs set out in the First Schedule hereto.

(2.) Section one hundred and forty-three of the Customs Act, 1913, shall apply to any alteration made by this Order in the Customs duties in force in Samoa on the commencement of this Order.

17. (1.) There shall be levied, collected, and paid to the use of His Majesty on goods exported from Samoa the several export duties set out in the Second Schedule hereto.

(2.) The said duties shall be chargeable on all goods which are laden on the exporting ship after the commencement of this Order.

(3.) Goods laden on the exporting ship before the commencement of this Order shall remain liable to the export duties heretofore in force in Samoa.

18. Save in pursuance of a license issued by the Minister of External Affairs, it shall not be lawful to import into Samoa any firearms, ammunition, or explosives.

19. (1.) Save in pursuance of a license issued by the Minister of Customs, it shall not be lawful to import into Samoa any German or Austrian goods.

(2.) “German or Austrian goods” means goods which, whether before or after the date of this Order, have been manufactured in, or produced in, or exported from Germany or Austria.

(3.) “Germany” means the territory of the State of Germany as now constituted.

(4.) “Austria” means any territory which on the fourth day of August, nineteen hundred and fourteen, was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, other than territory which belongs to the Republic of Czecho-Slovakia, or to the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, or to the Kingdom of Italy.

(5.) Goods shall be deemed to have been manufactured or produced in Germany or Austria if as much as five per centum of the value thereof as estimated in accordance with the provisions of the Customs Act, 1913, with respect to goods subject to ad valorem duty, has its source in Germany or Austria.

20. If a Collector of Customs has reason to believe or suspect that any goods imported into Samoa are German or Austrian goods imported without the leave of the Minister of Customs, the Collector may detain those goods, and they shall not be delivered from the control of the Customs until the Collector is satisfied, by such evidence as he requires, that the goods are not German or Austrian goods, or the Minister of Customs consents to the importation of those goods or to the exportation thereof.

21. If the invoice for any goods imported into Samoa from any destination contains or is accompanied by a certificate signed by the exporter to the effect that less than five per centum of the fair market value in the country of export of each article in its condition as exported has its source in Germany or Austria, such certificate shall be accepted by the Collector of Customs as sufficient evidence that the goods are not German or Austrian goods within the meaning of this Order, unless the Collector has reason to believe or suspect that the certificate is false or erroneous.