Num. 85.

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1933.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1933.

Notification of Commencement of Trade Arrangement between the Economic Union of Belgium and Luxemburg and the Dominion of New Zealand.

[l.s.] BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS a trade arrangement between the Economic Union of Belgium and Luxemburg and the Dominion of New Zealand, entered into on the fifth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three, has been ratified in New Zealand by the Trade Arrangement (New Zealand and Belgium) Ratification Act, 1933: And whereas by section four of the said Act it is provided that the said arrangement shall be brought into force by the Governor-General by Proclamation on a date to be therein specified in that behalf: Now, therefore, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power conferred on me by the said section four, do hereby proclaim and notify that the said arrangement shall come into force on the sixteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 15th day of December, 1933.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Customs.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Altering Rates of Duty on Moquette and Tapestry of Wool or containing Wool, and exempting certain Goods from Primage Duty.—(C. No. 109.)

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 15th day of December, 1933.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by section twelve of the Customs Amendment Act, 1921, and by section four of the Customs Acts Amendment Act, 1931, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that 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 suspend the existing tariff (being the First Schedule to the Customs Amendment Act, 1927) in so far as it relates to the goods mentioned in the First Schedule hereto and in lieu thereof doth hereby impose on the goods mentioned in the Second Schedule hereto the duties therein set forth: And with the like advice and consent doth hereby exempt from the primage duty imposed by the aforesaid section four of the Customs Acts Amendment Act, 1931, the classes of goods set out in the Third Schedule hereto: And with the like advice and consent doth hereby declare that every application of duties and exemption from duty hereby effected is subject to the provisions of section one hundred and forty-three of the Customs Act, 1913: And doth hereby further declare that all duties of Customs that have become due and payable, and all penalties and forfeitures that have been incurred prior to the coming into force of this Order in Council, shall be recovered and enforced as if this Order in Council had not been made:

Provided that nothing in this Order in Council shall affect the provisions of section five of the Customs Acts Amendment Act, 1930, in respect of the imposition of surtax on any goods affected by this Order in Council or affect the liability of any goods for payment of any duty imposed by the said section five of the Customs Acts Amendment Act, 1930, or prescribed thereunder.

This Order in Council shall come into force on the sixteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

PORTION OF TARIFF SUSPENDED.