ENEMY GOODS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 301, 21 December 1939, Page 8

ENEMY GOODS.

PREVENT TRADE.

REGULATIONS ISSUED.

SYSTEM OF CERTIFICATES.

LIST OF EXEMPTED ARTICLES. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Commenting on the Import Certificates Emergency Eegulations, gazetted this week, the Minister of Customs, the Hon. W. Nash, said that in issuing the regulations the Government was acting in complete co-operation- with the United Kingdom Government in its actions relative to exports from Germany. Under these regulations, unless exempted l>y the Minister of Customs, goods exported to New Zealand from neutral countries in Europe on or after January 1 will require to be accompanied by a Consular certificate of origin and interest, which must be produced when 'the goods are entered at the Customs. are issued by British Consular offices in neutral countries, and are designed to prevent importation from. such countries of goods in which an enemy has an interest, or in the manufacture of which more than 25 per cent of enemy labour or material is involved. It had been arranged in respect of goods from Belgium that the New Zealand Government Tourist and Trade Commissioner at Brussels, would issue the necessary certificates. It was not anticipated that any difficulty would be experienced at the outset in obtaining the certificates as the system was already operating in respect to exports to the United Kingdom from neutral countries.

The regulations provide for the detention. of goods unaccompanied by the necessary certificate.

[ In a separate Gazette notice the Min- ' ister has declared certain goods to be exempted from the requirements of the regulations. These are principally materials required for us<» in industry. Warning Issued. "It is considered we in Xew Zealand should co-operate fully in any measures adopted by the United Kingdom Government to prevent the enemy trading, and the logulaljoiw now made should eervo to a material extent in preventing the introduction of enemy goods in innocent guise, said Mr. Xash.

"The United Kingdom Ministry of Economic Warfare recently issued a warning to the effect that merchants who wish to ensure their exports from European countries are not delayed or detained are advised to obtain certificates of origin and interest from a British or French consular officer in the European country concerned. They should arrange for these certificates to accompany the goods on board the vessel. This will, it is stated, greatly facilitate examination of the vessel at the contraband control bases, and shipowners are therefore strongly advised not to accept cargo not accompanied by such certificates."

Goods exempted from the regulations are as follows: —Abrasives, crude or partly manufactured; all articles of food; animal hair and wool (raw); argol and other crude tartrates; artificial silk waste; asbestos raw fibre and waste; asphalt and bitumen (natural); bona fide gifts from private senders to private addresses; bona fide personal and household effects of persons entering New Zealand; boron minerals, crude and concentrates of boracite. and rasorite; bristles of the pig, hog or boar; bulbs and coring; coir fibre: cork, raw or granulated shavings, and waste.

Cotton, raw linters and unmanufactured waste; feathers, when imported in bales, sacks or similar packages without internal containers, of birds which are ordinarily used in New Zealand as articles of diet; bed feathers imported in bulk, and down; feeding stuffs for animals; ferro alloys; fertilisers of the following descriptions—bones, mineral phosphates of lime; flax and hemp, not further dressed after scutching or decorticating; flax tow or codilla.

Flowers, cut; goods addressed to or consigned direct to Government Departments; goods imported under transit or transhipment conditions and duly reexported; goods of New Zealand origin reimported after exportation therefrom; gums and resin other than hemp, tow or codilla; hides and skins, including fur skins, raw, dried, salted or pickled.

Iron and steel, scrap and waste; iron ore and concentrates; jute (raw); magnesite; magnesium; mercury; newspapers, periodicals, printed books and printed parts thereof; printed music catalogues, advertising material, printed leaflets, printed pamphlets, and printed forms; non-ferrous metalliferous ores and concentrates and scrap, and old metal; paper-making materials; raffia, unmanufactured; rubber, raw, waste and reclaimed.

Essential Oils. Samples of no commercial value; seeds, agricultural and horticultural, and feedings, seeds, nuts, and kernels for expressing oil, oils, fats and greases of all kinds other than essential oils, but including turpentine; silk, raw cocoons, waste and noils; slag, including basic slag; sponges, stones and slates; strawboard; sulphur; tanning extracts (solid and liquid), oak, chestnut, quebracho and wattle bark, tanning substances gambler, myrobalans, sumach leaves' valonia and wattle bark; tar and pitch-' hood and timber in round or hewn or sawn, planed or unplaned; wool and animal hair, raw wool, waste not pulled or garnetted, wool noils, wool rags and hair rags.