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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 31

ment or arrangement shall have any effect unless and until
it is ratified by Parliament:
And whereas by the Tariff Agreement (New Zealand and Australia) Ratification Act, 1922, a certain reciprocal Customs agreement with the Commonwealth of Australia (hereinafter called "the said agreement"), being an agreement to which section ten of the Customs Amendment Act, 1921, applies, was ratified:
And whereas by section two of the Tariff Agreement (New Zealand and Australia) Ratification Act, 1922, it is enacted that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section ten of the Customs Amendment Act, 1921, any agreement modifying the said agreement may be given effect to by Order in Council under that Act notwithstanding that the first-mentioned agreement may not have been ratified as required by that section:
And whereas effect was given to the said agreement by Order in Council made and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the twenty-fourth day of August, 1922:
And whereas the said agreement was subsequently modified and effect was given to such modification by Order in Council made on the twenty-fourth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the twenty-sixth day of the same month:
And whereas the said agreement has now been further modified by an agreement expressed to be made between the Commonwealth of Australia (therein called "the Commonwealth") of the one part and the Dominion of New Zealand (therein called "the Dominion") of the other part, whereby the parties have agreed together in the terms set out in the First Schedule hereto:
And whereas it is desirable to give effect to the modification of the said agreement made by the last-mentioned agreement,
and at the same time to consolidate therewith the effect of the said Order in Council of date the twenty-fourth day of October, 1922:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by the Customs Amendment Act, 1921, and by section two of the Tariff Agreement (New Zealand and Australia) Ratification Act, 1922, and of all other powers enabling him in this behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth, for the purpose of giving effect to the premises, hereby modify the said Order in Council of date the twenty-fourth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, by amending the Schedule to the said agreement (as the same is set out in the Appendix to the said last-named Order in Council) to the extent and in the manner set out in the Second Schedule hereto and the Third Schedule hereto respectively, and doth hereby declare that the modifications contained in the Second Schedule hereto shall be deemed to have taken effect on and from the first day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, and that the modification contained in the Third Schedule hereto shall be deemed to have taken effect on and from the first day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

1. The principal agreement is varied further as set forth hereunder:-
   (a.) By the substitution for clause 2 of the principal agreement of the following clause:-
   "2. The Commonwealth shall not impose any Customs duty or increase the rate of any Customs duty on any article the produce or manufacture of the Dominion entering the Commonwealth from the Dominion, and the Dominion shall not impose any Customs duty or increase the rate of any Customs duty on any article the produce or manufacture of the Commonwealth entering the Dominion from the Commonwealth (whether such article is or is not specifically enumerated in the Schedule hereto, and whether such article is or is not dutiable at the date of this agreement), except by mutual agreement, until after six calendar months' notice to the other party to this agreement."
   (b.) By adding, after the words "Meats, potted or preserved" in item numbered 26, the words "(not including mutton-birds)."
2. The provisions of paragraph (a) of clause 1 of this agreement shall be deemed to have operated on and after the 2nd day of September, 1925, and the provisions of paragraph (b) of the said clause shall be deemed to have operated on and after the 1st day of February, 1926.
3. Save and except as it has been varied as hereinbefore recited and as it is varied by this agreement, the principal agreement shall remain in full force and effect.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

1. CONSECUTIVE No. 26: "Meats, potted or preserved" to be altered to 2d. per lb. instead of 20 per cent. ad valorem, in the column headed "Proposed Duties against Australia."
2. Consecutive No. 30: "Meats, viz.: (c.) Preserved in tins or other airtight vessels, including the weight of the liquid contents" to be altered to 2d. per lb. instead of 20 per cent. ad valorem, in the column headed "Proposed Duties against New Zealand."
3. Consecutive No. 67: To be altered by deleting the words "Sheets and roofing-slates composed of cement and asbestos or of similar materials."
4. A fresh consecutive No. to be inserted as follows:-
   Consecutive No. 67A, Tariff item No. 240A: "Sheets and roofing-slates composed of cement and asbestos or of similar materials"—10 per cent. ad valorem in the column headed "Proposed Duties against New Zealand," and 10 per cent. ad valorem in the column headed "Proposed Duties against Australia."
5. Consecutive No. 69: To be altered by deleting the words "sheets, plain or corrugated, roofing-slates, and."
6. Consecutive No. 85: To be altered by inserting, after the word "Curd-mills," the words "Curd-agitators, Curd-mixers."
7. A fresh consecutive number to be inserted after consecutive number 120 as follows:-
   Consecutive No. 120A: "Corn-millet Brooms": 30 per cent. ad valorem in the column headed "Proposed Duties against New Zealand," and 30 per cent. ad valorem in the column headed "Proposed Duties against Australia."

THIRD SCHEDULE.

CONSECUTIVE No. 26: to be altered by adding, after the words "meats, potted or preserved," the words "(not including mutton-birds.)"

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Portion of Watson Street, in the City of Wellington, exempted from the Provisions of Section 117 of the Public Works Act, 1908, subject to a Condition as to the Building-line.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
By his Deputy,
CHARLES PERRIN SKERRETT.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 19th day of May, 1926.
Present:
His Excellency THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers in anyway enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby approve of the following resolution passed by the Wellington City Council on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, viz.:-
"The Wellington City Council, being the local authority having control of the streets in the City of Wellington, hereby declares that the provisions of section one hundred and seventeen of the Public Works Act, 1908, shall not apply to all that portion of Watson Street extension beginning at its present termination and extending for a distance of approximately 66·67 links, being the part of road contained in Town Section 112, City of Wellington, and more particularly described on plan P.W.D, 60657, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington"; subject to the condition that no building or part of a building shall at any time be erected on the land fronting either side of the portion of Watson Street (described in the Schedule hereto), within a distance of thirty feet from the centre-line of the said portion of street.

SCHEDULE.

All that portion of street situated in the Wellington Land District, City of Wellington, known as Watson Street, fronting part Town Section 112, City of Wellington. As the said portion of street is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 61726, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

F. D. THOMSON,
(P.W. 51/788.)
Clerk of the Executive Council.