TRADE WITH SAMOA.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 213, 8 September 1923, Page 6

TRADE WITH SAMOA.

NEW CUSTOMS REGULATIONS. LIST OF EXEMPTED GOODS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Order-in-Couneil relating to Samoa customs has- been revoked under the Samoa Customs Consolidation Order, which comes into operation on October 1. All esieting Orders-in-Council have been revoked, and the Customs Act, 1913, with certain modifications, has been made applicable to New Zealand's mandated territory. Apia is declared a port of entry. The penalty for importing opium hae been fixed at £200, as against £50 in New Zealand. Importation of firearms, ammunition, or explosives into Samoa except under license, is prohibited, and similar provision ifi imposed in respect to German and Austrian sroods. Among poods exempted from Customs duty are printed literature, including music, goods approved by the Administrator for importation by Christian missions for religious or " educational purposes. Chinese tobacco (tobacco approved by the Administrator as exclusively suitable, for use by Chinese) butter, honey, infants' food, copra sacks and cocoa saoks, gravestones' and machinery, implements and materials for the establishment or development of local industries.