OUR EXPORTS.

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OUR EXPORTS.

_+. REVISED SCHEDULES OF CON-/ TRABAND.

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TEUCGK-M.) WELLINGTON, April 6. A "Gazette" extraordinary, issued to-day, revokes a number of Orders-in-Council affecting the prohibition of exports in consequence of tho war and consolidates tho position under tho following schedules. A new list of con- - traband, absolute and conditional, is also published for public information. Second Schedule—Goods, the exportation of which is prohibited to any destination except with the consent of tho Minister of Customs: Coal, flour, oatmeal, wheat, oats, forage, i.e., grass, clover, hay, oaten-shea-chaff, and bran. - Third Schedule—Goods, the exportation of which is prohibited '-to any other destination than the United Kingdom, except with the consent of tho Minister' of Customs: Frozen mutton and lamb, chilled and frozen beef or veal, rabbits, tinned meats. Fourth Schcdu le —Goods, the exportation of which is prohibited to foreign ports in Europe or the Mediterranean and Black Seas, other than those of France, Russia (except Baltic ports), Belgium, Spain, and Portugal: Bladders, casings and isnusage skins, kauri gum and other resinous products, sulphur, flax (phorium tenax), provisions and victuals which, may be used as - food- for man/foodstuffs for animals, oleaginous seeds, mits and kernels, animal and vegetable'oils and fats suit- i able for use in the manufacture of margarine, cakes and meals made from oleaginous seeds, nuts and kernels, ; seeds, clover and grass, bags and sacks \ of all kind's, asbestos and copra. Fifth Schedule—Goods, the exportation of which is prohibited to. any | other dcstinntioT than the United Kingdom,* British possessions and pro- / ■tectorntes",' except with the-consent of j tho Minister'of Customs: Wool, hides, I sheepskins, calf-skins, pigskins, pelts, barley, linseed, beans; peas, extracts of meat, leather; dressed or undressed, suitable for .saddlery-, harness, military boots or military clothing, sheelite, whale oil, petroleum, rubber and goods made of rubber, copper, copper ore, nllovß of copper, graphite, woollen cloth suitable for uniform clothing, woollen yarns, woollen jerseys, jackets, gloves, socks and men's woollen Underwear of all.kinds, blankets and horse rugs, vessels, lvoats and craft, and all ■•«wl-i otherwise K*wifically Referred to in any of the schedules'), which are for the time being contraband of war (whether absolute or conditional), under any procla"-*at'in or Order-in-Council issued by his Majesy.