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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

[No. 41

The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Provisional Application Order 1948

[L.S.] B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General By his Deputy, H. F. O'LEARY A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS by virtue of section three of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Act, 1948, a certain trade agreement as set out in that Act is deemed to have been ratified upon the signature of the Protocol of Provisional Application referred to in section two of that Act:

And whereas by section four of the said Act it is provided that the date on which the said agreement is applied provisionally shall be notified by the Governor-General by Proclamation:

And whereas by the said section four it is further provided that upon the issue of a Proclamation notifying that date—

(a) The duties and exemptions from duty provided for in Part I of Schedule XIII to the said agreement or in the Second Schedule to the said Act shall, subject to the provisions of section one hundred and forty-three of the Customs Act, 1913, be imposed and allowed on all goods enumerated in the said Part I or Second Schedule, and being the produce or manufacture of such countries not forming part of the British dominions as may be specified in the said Proclamation, imported into New Zealand or entered therein for home consumption on or after the said date:

(b) The duties and exemptions from duty provided for in Part II of Schedule XIII to the said agreement shall, subject to the provisions of section one hundred and forty-three of the Customs Act, 1913, be imposed and allowed on all goods enumerated in the said Part II, and being the produce or manufacture of any country being part of the British dominions, imported into New Zealand or entered therein for home consumption on or after the said date:

Now, therefore, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, 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 as follows :—

1. This Proclamation may be cited as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Provisional Application Order 1948.

2. The date on which the said agreement is applied provisionally shall be the twenty-sixth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight.

3. The countries not forming part of the British dominions on the products or manufactures of which the duties and exemptions from duty provided for in Part I of Schedule XIII to the said agreement or in the Second Schedule to the said Act shall be imposed or allowed shall be those specified in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE COUNTRIES TO WHICH MOST-FAVOURED-NATION TARIFF APPLIES Argentina. Belgium (including overseas territories). Brazil. Chile. China. Cuba. Czechoslovakia. Egypt. France (including overseas territories). Greece. Lebanon. Luxemburg. Netherlands (including overseas territories). Norway. Spain. Sweden. Syria. United States of America.

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 21st day of July, 1948. W. NASH, Minister of Customs.

God save the King!

Authorizing the Acquisition of Land notwithstanding the Provisions as to Limitations of Area

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General By his Deputy, H. F. OLEARY ORDER IN COUNCIL At the Government House at Wellington, this 14th day of July, 1948 Present: HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL PURSUANT to section forty-one of the Statutes Amendment Act, 1945, and section forty of the Statutes Amendment Act, 1946, and all other powers him enabling, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby authorize the disposition to and the acquisition by James North Lowry, of Oreka, Okawa, Sheep-farmer, of the freehold land described in the First Schedule hereto, notwithstanding the provisions of Part XIII of the Land Act, 1924, and of the leasehold land described in the Second Schedule hereto, notwithstanding the provisions of section one hundred and seven of the Land Act, 1924.

FIRST SCHEDULE HAWKE'S BAY LAND DISTRICT ALL that area containing 35 acres and 8 perches, being part of the Otamauri Block, situated in Block IV, Ngaruroro Survey District, being Lot 1, Deposited Plan 6063, and being the land in Certificate of Title, H.B. Volume 50, folio 107.

All that area containing 1,829 acres, being part of the Kohurau No. 2D Block, situated in Blocks IX, X, XII, and XIV of the Kuripapanga Survey District, being Lot 1, Deposited Plan 6769, and being all the land in Certificate of Title, H.B. Volume 103, folio 122.

All that area containing 2,451 acres 2 roods and 30 perches, being Section 1 of Blocks XIII and XIV, Kuripapanga Survey District, and being all the land in Certificate of Title, H.B. Volume 53, folio 58.

SECOND SCHEDULE HAWKE'S BAY LAND DISTRICT ALL that area containing 1,320 acres, being Sections 1 and 2, Blocks IX and XIII, Kuripapanga Survey District, and being all the land comprised and described in Renewable Lease No. 110 registered in Register-book, H.B. Volume 76, folio 67.

T. J. SHERRARD, Clerk of the Executive Council. (L. and S. 22/1450/1195.) Authorizing the Acquisition of Land notwithstanding the Provisions as to Limitations of Area B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General By his Deputy, H. F. O'LEARY ORDER IN COUNCIL At the Government House at Wellington, this 21st day of July, 1948 Present: HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL PURSUANT to section forty of the Statutes Amendment Act, 1946, and all other powers him enabling, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby authorize the disposition to and acquisition by H. Baigent and Sons, Limited, a private company, of the land described in the Schedule hereto, notwithstanding the provisions of section one hundred and seven of the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE NELSON LAND DISTRICT ALL that area containing 284 acres, more or less, situated in the District of Pigeon Valley, being Section No. 11 on the plan of the said district, and being the whole of the land comprised and described in Certificate of Title, Vol. 27, folio 92 (Nelson Registry). T. J. SHERRARD, Clerk of the Executive Council. (L. and S. 36/1444/621.) Cancelling the Vesting of a Reserve in the Waitemata County Council B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General By his Deputy, H. F. O'LEARY ORDER IN COUNCIL At the Government House at Wellington, this 21st day of July, 1948 Present: HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto is a reserve for a site for a public hall and is vested in the Waitemata County Council:

And whereas it is expedient that the vesting of the said land as hereinbefore referred to should be cancelled, and the Waitemata County Council has duly consented to such cancellation:

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 the said Dominion, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by subsection one of section ten of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, doth hereby cancel the vesting in the Waitemata County Council of the land described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT All that area in the County of Waitemata, situated in Block VI, Titirangi Survey District, containing by admeasurement 1 rood, more or less, being Lot 40 on D.P. 19099, and being part Allotment 35, Parish of Waikomiti. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 22/4644, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

T. J. SHERRARD, Clerk of the Executive Council. (L. and S. 22/4644.)